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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
Massachusetts
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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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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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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
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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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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 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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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