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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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Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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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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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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