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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.
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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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
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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 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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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 is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
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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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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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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