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Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
Novelist
Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Bedfellows
Strange
Politics
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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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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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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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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning 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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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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