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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.
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
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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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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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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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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If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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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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 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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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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 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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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