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Andrew Lang, FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was 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.

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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.

Ancient, Blue, Cark, Glaze, Joy, Mark

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Drunk, Illumination, Politicians, Statistics, Support

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.

Book, Care, Distrust, Reading, Writing

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Funny, Humorous, Men, Statistics, Support, Unsophisticated

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Hold, Opportunity, Public Speaking, Tongue

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Beautiful, Fairies, Fairy, Memorable, Numerous

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Befall, Bunkers, Men, Patience, Wise

I am the batsman and the bat,
I am the bowler and the ball,
The umpire, the pavilion cat,
The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Bat, Bats, Cat, Roller, Umpires

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Culture, Evolving, Idea, Ideas, Think, Thinking

. . . remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Afraid, Danger, Fear, Feared, Remember

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

Alone, Animal, Animals, Cat, Contemplative, Contemplative Life

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Bay, Beach, Garden, Summer, Weed, Winter

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Book, Face, Faces, Recovering, Return, Years