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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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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 principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
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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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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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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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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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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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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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