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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
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
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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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
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