Quote by Clarence Day
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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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. – Clarence Day

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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. – Clarence Day

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. – Franklin P. Adams

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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. – Bible

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

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