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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. - Robertson Davi

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. – 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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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. – Robertson Davies

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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. – George Herbert

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Dali had a good sense of humor – obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny. – Joe Grant

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Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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