Clarence Day Quotes

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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

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This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

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The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

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The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

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The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

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When the brain fails to act with the body, or, worse, works against it, the body will sicken no matter what cures doctors try.

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Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

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The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

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"If you don't go to other men's funerals," he told Father stiffly, "they won't go to yours."

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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb—such power and such restraint, combined, are noble—but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

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Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

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Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

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Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

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What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is — blind or not—a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

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It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice the most for.

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

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The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

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Aside from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it completely for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

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When eras die, their legacies
Are left to strange police.
Professors in New England guard
The glory that was Greece.

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