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A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
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Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt one only needs to know how to strike it.
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In onion is strength and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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