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World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

1 " You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

2 " Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

3 " The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

4 " An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

5 " No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so? "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

6 " Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

7 " Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

8 " And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)

9 " I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself. "

― Robertson Davies , World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)