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Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
John Buchan
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John Buchan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1875
Born: August 26
Died: 1940
Died: February 11
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Former Governor General Of Canada
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
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London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.
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I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
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The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
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History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
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I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
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I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
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Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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But some love not the method of your first Romance they count it, throw't away as dust If I should meet with such, what should I say Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay
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He who would valiant be against all disaster let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
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Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
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