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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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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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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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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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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
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It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Charles Dudley Warner
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
Charles Dudley Warner
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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
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