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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
Actor
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Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Ten
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Opinion
Public
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Legislature
Commandments
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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