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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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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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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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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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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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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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 cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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