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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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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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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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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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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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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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A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
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The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt one only needs to know how to strike it.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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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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Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
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