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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas



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Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: British
Born: December 8, 1868
Died: February 7, 1952

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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Norman Douglas

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Norman Douglas

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.
Norman Douglas

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

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

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