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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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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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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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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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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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