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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
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Hampshire County
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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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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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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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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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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 is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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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