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 Copy Share Image
“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… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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