Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Langwas a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1844
cat animal wheels
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
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There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.
beautiful memorable fairy
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
drunken man rather statistics support uses
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns.
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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.
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Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?