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John Buchan

"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."

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"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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