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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
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Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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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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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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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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in 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 most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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 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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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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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 only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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