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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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