This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-man’s-land, and the holiday-maker claims the valleys for his own. But this busyness is but of yesterday, and not ten years ago the fields lay quiet to the gaze of placid beasts and the wandering stars. This story I have culled from the grave of an old fashion, and set down for the love of a great soul and the poetry of life. . John Buchan
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
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Jane Austen
Language is the key to the heart of people.
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Ahmed Deedat
After all, tomorrow is another day!
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Margaret Mitchell
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
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Connie Willis
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
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Matthew Quick
More Quotes By John Buchan
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
