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Men Quotes by Clarence Day
- 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.…
- If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
- Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
- 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…
- The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
- The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old…
- The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old…
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