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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
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Clarence Day
Age: 61 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 18
Died: 1935
Died: December 28
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New York City
New York
Clarence Shepherd Day
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B. H. Arkwright
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If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
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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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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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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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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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Be adorable always to each other respect is everlasting.
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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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The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
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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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Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
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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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The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
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I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
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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, thinks wildly, Is this all they've done to it? and bursts into tears.
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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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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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