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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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One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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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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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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If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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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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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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