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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.
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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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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 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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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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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 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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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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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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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 is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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