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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.
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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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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 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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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
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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 no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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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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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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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