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Perhaps 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.…
- 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…
- Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
- The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to…
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