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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.
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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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