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

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  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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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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  Life, Real, Fall

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.

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• 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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  Money, Hurt, Taken

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

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  Life, Stars, Dark

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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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  Giving, World, Jinn

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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  Energy, Fields, Certain

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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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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  Bullying, School, Unique

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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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  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "The Crow's Nest".

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• This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

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  Mistake, World, Infirmity

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.69, 1st World Publishing

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• Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

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  Friendship, Real, Men

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.11, Litres

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• If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

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  Funny, Death, Humor

  1935 Life With Father,'Father interferes'.

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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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  Song, Men, Generations

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'Humpty-Dumpty and Adam'.

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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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  Elephants, Suffering, Quality

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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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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  Curiosity, Pausing, Facts

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.25, Litres

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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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  Nature, Sound, Mastery

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

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  Knowledge, Creating, Dupes

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.24, Litres

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• Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

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  Rights, Political, Groups

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

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  Eggs, Ancestry, Birth

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