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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.
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
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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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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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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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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
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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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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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