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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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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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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