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Rather Quotes by Robertson Davies
- 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…
- 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.
- Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it…
- Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of…
- I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to…
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov