About Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding...
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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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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.