Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
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- 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.
- 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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- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.