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Quote by Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and

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. – Robertson Davies

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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Censorship
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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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Curiosity
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. – Robertson Davies

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Pornography
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. – Pearl S. Buck

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Wisdom doesnt necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson

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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. – Tom Hanks

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With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, Im not afraid to make a fool of myself. – Hugh Jackman

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Im the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation. – Mike Love

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal

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I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasnt available in the U.K., so I turned to music. – Eric Burdon

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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