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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
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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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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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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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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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 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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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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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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