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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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 stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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