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title: "3 Fifth-business Quotes by 1 author"
description: "Browse 3 Fifth-business quotes by 1 author. Discover the best Fifth-business sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/once-it-was-the-fashion-to-represent-villages-as-places-inhabited-by/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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> [“There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/there-is-really-no-such-thing-as-a-secret-everybody-likes-to-tell-and/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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> [“Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/commanders-and-historians-are-the-people-who-discuss-wars-i-was-in/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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