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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
Massachusetts
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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 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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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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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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 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 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 boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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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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