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Very Quotes by Robertson Davies
- The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
- Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
- Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
- Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if…
- Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some…
- Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,…
- The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you…
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