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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe,

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. – 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. – Robertson Davies

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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies

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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young

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My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I dont want to be a master. When Im learning something, Im in my element. – Chick Corea

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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing its not a western invention. – Garry Kasparov

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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. – Harry S. Truman

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. – Faith Resnick

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. – Simone de Beauvoir

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