“To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance.”

—  John Buchan, book The Power-House

Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

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