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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John Buchan
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
John Buchan
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
John Buchan
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.
John Buchan
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
John Buchan
The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.
John Buchan
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
John Buchan
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
John Buchan
[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
John Buchan
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
John Buchan
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
John Buchan
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
John Buchan
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.
John Buchan
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
John Buchan
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