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William Robertson Davies Quotes

"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." ~William Robertson Davies

"As a general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is." ~William Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic (1960)

"Our age has robbed millions of simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to simplicity of wisdom." ~William Robertson Davies

"The eyes sees only what the mind   is prepared to comprehend." ~William Robertson Davies 

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past." ~William Robertson Davies