We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
More quotes from Clarence Day
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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You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.
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If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.
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Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
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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.
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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
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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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Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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If you don’t go to other men funerals they won’t go to yours.
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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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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