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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
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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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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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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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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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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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 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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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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