Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Eric Linklater

Born: March 8, 1899
Died: November 7, 1974 (aged 75)
Bio: Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books.
Known for:
- The Wind on the Moon (1944)
- Poet's Pub (1929)
- Private Angelo (1946)
- The Dark of Summer (1956)
- Magnus Merriman (1934)







