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.
Source: The Crow's Nest, In His Baby Blue Ship, 1921.
-- Clarence Day, (Nov 18 1874-1935), US biographer, essayist; His autobiography Life With Father was the longest running play in the U.S., 1940-50.