"It's a great life, if you don't weaken,"

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Source : Mr. Standfast ch. 5 (1919)

John Buchan

“Cheer up beautiful people... this is where you get to make it right.”
“Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!”
“I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.”
“I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.”
“I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.”
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
“We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable”
“I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.”

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