Quotes by Robertson Davies

"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."

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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

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"I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me."

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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."

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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."

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