Sir John Davies

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    Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
    That few but such as cannot write, translate.
    John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

    A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)