If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
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Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.Robertson Davies
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Robertson Davies
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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