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Robertson Davies on Love

1913–1995 Canada

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

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

Shakespeare over the Port (1960)

Love, though sweet, must know its proper station
And never seek to rival education.

The Golden Ass (1999)

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robertson Davies (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.