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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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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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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 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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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 know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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 well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
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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 stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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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