“If the Kirk confines human nature too strictly, it will break out in secret ways, for men and women are born into a terrestrial world, though they have hopes of Heaven.”

— John Buchan , book Witch Wood

Source: Witch Wood (1927), Ch. X "What the Moon Saw"

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British politician 1875–1940

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