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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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