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Often Quotes by Robertson Davies
- She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
- Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who…
- Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does…
- The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and…
- Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I…
- Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
- Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not…
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