The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies in The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

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