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- Robertson Davies: Canadian novelist and journalist
- Frederick W. Robertson: English divine
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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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.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
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I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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