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Norman Douglas Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Dec 8, 1868
  • Died: Feb 7, 1952

George Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.