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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
Novelist
Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Reputation
Fluctuating
Tenure
Uncertain
Literary

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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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 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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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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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 stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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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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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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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.
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
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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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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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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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