I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John BuchanTo spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.
John BuchanHe felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit of enterprise, and now he shaved in five minutes, where before he had taken twenty, and no longer confronted his fellows, at least one day in three, with a countenance ludicrously mottled by sticking-plaster.
John BuchanTags: humourous
My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.
John BuchanIt was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of sultriness later...
John BuchanIt was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with a grim tenacity, but indubitably dying. Her vital ardour had sunk below the mark from which it could rise again, and was now ebbing as water runs from a little crack in a pitcher.
John BuchanThe task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John BuchanTags: greatness leadership
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 BuchanTags: classic literature
I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.
John BuchanTags: learning passion attention-span
I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
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