All Robertson Davies Quotes
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
Robertson Davies

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

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Robertson Davies

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

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Robertson Davies

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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.
Robertson Davies

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