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Robertson Davies

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."

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"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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