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A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.
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I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.
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Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
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Knowledge and Wisdom and they are not the same,- because Knowledge is what you are taught, but Wisdom is what you bring to it.
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In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
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Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.
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Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.
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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
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I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.
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A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.
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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
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Robertson Davies
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Born:
August 28, 1913
Died:
December 2, 1995
(aged 82)
Bio:
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
Known for:
Fifth Business (1970)
The Manticore (1972)
The Rebel Angels (1981)
What's Bred in the Bone (1985)
World of Wonders (1975)
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