Clarence Day

Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr. (November 18, 1874 – December 28, 1935) was an American author. He was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1896. The following year, he joined the New York Stock Exchange, and became a partner in his father's Wall Street brokerage firm. Day enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1898, but developed crippling arthritis and spent the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid. Day's most famous work is the autobiographical Life with Father (1935), which detailed humorous episodes in his family's life, centering on his dominating father, during the 1890s in New York City.

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• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
• We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
• 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.
• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.