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Clarence Day
American
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About the author
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Vacation
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Art
#Thinking
#Writing
#Reading
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Reality
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Facts
#Curiosity
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#People
#Feet
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#May
#Money
#Health
#Excess
#Addiction
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#First
#Ants
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Talk
#First
#Nature
#Fact
If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Men
#Funerals
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Chance
#Children
#Parents
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Pretty
#Experience
#Information
Reason is the servant of instinct.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Reason
#Instinct
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Clarence Day,
American
Author
#Character
#World
#Experience
#Age