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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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 tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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.
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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 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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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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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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