Kin Hubbard quote ✍️

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It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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