One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

Quote by Robertson Davies

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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit...

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit...

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a...

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a...

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

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

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

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,...

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to...

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

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...

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact,...

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact,...