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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.
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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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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 principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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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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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 thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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