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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
Massachusetts
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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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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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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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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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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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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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In onion is strength and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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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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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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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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