Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, … - Robertson Davies

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Robertson Davies

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

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