Andrew Lang
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"Andrew Lang" was a Scotland/Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a folkloristics/collector of folklore/folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

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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.

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

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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.