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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.
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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Onions
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Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
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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 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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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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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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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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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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