“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
Shakespeare over the Port (1960)
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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995Related quotes

Source: Faitheist (2012), Chapter 8, “Fact or Friction, Engage or Enrage” (pp. 162-163)

“Believing in yourself is the greatest gift you can give to your life.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Credere in te stesso è il regalo più grande che puoi fare alla tua vita.

Brief biography http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/satir2.html at Webster University

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

Tim Brouk (September 6, 2007) "Jim Gaffigan returns to his old stomping grounds, Purdue", Journal and Courier, pp. 1, 2D.

“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”
Part II, line 95
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Letter (30 July 1947), p. 46
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)