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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1889/">Quotes by <em>Davies, Robertson</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."

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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

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"He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn."

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

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

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"Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind."

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"A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera."

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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."

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"Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard."

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