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Clarence Day Quotes

1874–1935 United States

Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr. (18 November 1874 – 28 December 1935) was an American author and humorist. Day's most famous work is the autobiographical Life with Father (1935), which detailed humorous episodes in his family's life, centering on his dominating father, during the 1890s in New York City.

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

After All (1936)

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970)

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

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

The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us.

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

Thoughts without words (1928)

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health, it limits one's chance of indulging in nice simple pleasures, and in many cases it lowers the whole moral tone.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clarence Day (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.