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Notion Quotes by Robertson Davies
- Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.…
- I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand…
- It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a…
- 'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that…
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a…
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
- 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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