The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. — Quoted

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“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”

Robertson Davies · Humor

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

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

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

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