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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. - Robertson Davies
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. - Robertson Davies
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. - Robertson Davies
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. - Robertson Davies
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. - Robertson Davies
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. - Robertson Davies
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. - Robertson Davies
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. - Robertson Davies
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. - Robertson Davies
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. - Robertson Davies
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. - Robertson Davies
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. - Robertson Davies
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