So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading..... : Quote by Robertson Davies

“ So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time. ”

Robertson Davies
  • From : The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing & the World of Books
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