“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
— Robertson Davies
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Category: learning
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The great book for you is the
“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.”
— Robertson Davies
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend
“Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.”
— Robertson Davies
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The great book for you is the
“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.”
— Robertson Davies
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The world is full of people whose
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”
— Robertson Davies
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A truly great book should be read
“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.”
— Robertson Davies
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A truly great book should be read
“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.”
— Robertson Davies
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The great book for you is the
“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.”
— Robertson Davies
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The love of truth lies at the
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
— Robertson Davies
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