Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Quote by Robertson Davies

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The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

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 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,...

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...

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...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...

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.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

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

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

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...

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it