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If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.


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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award 1944 for Green Dolphin Country. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge.

A best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s her books gained renewed attention in 1993 when one of them was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. The "new" novel set in India garnered rave reviews in both The New York Times and the The Washington Post before its source was discovered.

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