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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 28th, 1913

Died: December 2nd, 1995

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