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.

Quote by Robertson Davies

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The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

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

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

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said,...

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said,...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets...

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want...

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...