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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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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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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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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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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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 difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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 well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
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