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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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In onion is strength and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.
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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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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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One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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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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There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
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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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