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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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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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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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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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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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 stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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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 woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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