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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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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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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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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 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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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