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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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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 cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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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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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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In onion is strength and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.
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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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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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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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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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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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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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