Simeon Strunsky
Simeon Strunsky
Simeon Strunskywas a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 July 1879
CountryUnited States of America
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The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
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The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
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Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.