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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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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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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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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One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
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Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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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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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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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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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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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