David Grayson

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David Grayson


Born
in Lansing (Michigan), The United States
April 17, 1870

Died
July 12, 1946


Pen-name of Ray Stannard Baker


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Average rating: 4.19 · 796 ratings · 111 reviews · 195 distinct worksSimilar authors
Adventures in Contentment

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Adventures in Friendship

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The Friendly Road

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A Day of Pleasant Bread

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Adventures in Understanding

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Countryman's Year

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Great Possessions

4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1930 — 66 editions
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Adventures in Solitude

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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“The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, 'Here I am --- just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous -- take me or leave me.' And how absolutely beautiful it is to be doing only what lies within your own capabilities and is part of your own nature. It is like a great burden rolled off a man's back when he comes to want to appear nothing that he is not, to take out of life only what is truly his own.”
David Grayson

“For adventure is not outside a man; it is within.”
David Grayson, Adventures in Solitude

“Let us say," I continued, "that you are willing to invest twenty years of your life in a million dollars." ("Merely an illustration," said John Starkweather.) "You have it where you can put it in the bank and take it out again, or you can give it form in houses, yachts, and other things. Now twenty years of my life—to me—is worth more than a million dollars. I simply can't afford to sell it for that. I prefer to invest it, as somebody or other has said, unearned in life. I've always had a liking for intangible properties.”
David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment

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