Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom. (Robertson Davies)

Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.

Robertson Davies

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