"When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece."
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Thoughts without words (1928), p. 113
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Clarence Day
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr. (18 November 1874 – 28 December 1935) was an American author and humorist. 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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