“They want to hurry things quicker than the Almighty means them to go. I don't altogether blame them either, for I'm mortally impatient myself. But it s no good thinking that saying a thing should be so will make it so. We're not the Creator of this universe. You've got to judge results according to your instruments.”

— John Buchan , book The Path of the King

Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", III

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British politician 1875–1940

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