A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Clarence Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clarence Day. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2020

Quote of the Day (Clarence Day, on His Mother Buying a Clock at Auction)

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“Mother knew in her heart that she had no business going to auctions. She was too suggestible, and if an hypnotic auctioneer once got ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Quote of the Day (Clarence Day, on Early Home Phones)

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“When the telephone was invented and was ready to use, hardly anybody cared to install one. We all stuck to our buzzers. Messenger boys...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Quote of the Day (Clarence Day, on His Father and God)

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“I thought of God as a strangely emotional being. He was powerful; he was forgiving yet obdurate, full of wrath and affection. Both His wrat...
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