"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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"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.“
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."
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"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
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"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
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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."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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