I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. - Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies: "I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves."

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Back	Bluefingered	Bony	Daylight
Detect	Doing	Eager	Earlier
Hand	Healthy	Into	Kind
Make	Nothing	Object	People
Puritanism	Push	Reason	Saving
Scheme	Spite	Tells	Them
Themselves	Wealthy	Wise

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