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Quotes by Robertson Davies
- The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
- The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
- 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.
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