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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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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Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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In onion is strength and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.
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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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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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