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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Norman Douglas
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Norman Douglas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 8
Died: 1952
Died: February 9
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I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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