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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in 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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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
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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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