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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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
Massachusetts
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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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.
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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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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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 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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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