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> [ \[W\]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/w-ithout-humour-you-cannot-run-a-sweetie-shop-let-alone-a-nation/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

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## More by John Buchan

> [“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/all-this-was-very-loose-guessing-and-i-don-t-pretend-it-was-ingenious/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/you-think-that-a-wall-as-solid-as-the-earth-separates-civilization/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [“The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/the-men-who-knew-that-he-knew-what-he-knew-had-found-him/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/i-began-to-get-really-keen-for-every-man-at-the-bottom-of-his-heart/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [“How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/how-will-you-deal-with-him-belses-asked-jock-lifted-a-brawny-fist-and/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/the-true-definition-of-a-snob-is-one-who-craves-for-what-separates/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/you-see-only-the-productions-of-second-rate-folk-who-are-in-a-hurry/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/i-always-try-to-suit-my-clothes-to-my-company-it-is-the-only-way-to/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/but-let-none-he-added-pray-to-have-the-full-music-for-it-will-make/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/though-i-was-afraid-of-many-things-the-thing-i-feared-most-mortally/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [ \[W\]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/w-ithout-humour-you-cannot-run-a-sweetie-shop-let-alone-a-nation/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/i-was-a-peaceful-sedentary-man-a-lover-of-a-quiet-life-with-no/)

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> [In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/in-our-modern-world-we-have-seen-inaugurated-the-reign-of-a-dull/)

[John Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-buchan/)

> [The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/the-robe-of-flesh-wears-thin-and-with-the-years-god-shines-through/)

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> [“Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-buchan/most-people-are-a-little-scared-at-new-things-you-want-a-bigger-heart/)

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