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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
Massachusetts
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If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
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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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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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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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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
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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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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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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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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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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