John Buchan Short Quotes

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Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.

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The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

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It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.

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We think our castles of sand are the ramparts of the universe.

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Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

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When all is said, we are ruled by the amateurs and the second-rate.

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I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

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The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.

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What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.

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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

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He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.

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It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.

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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

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We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.

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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

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It's the Idea that wins every time — the Idea with brains and guts behind it.

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The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

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I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.

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We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.

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It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

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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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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.

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