| Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| 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 he is fool enough to do so. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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| He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. |
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- Robertson Davies |
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