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The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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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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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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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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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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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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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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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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