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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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
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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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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
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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 is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
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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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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
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You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
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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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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
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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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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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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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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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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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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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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
September 12, 1829
Died:
October 20, 1900
(aged 71)
Bio:
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Known for:
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
In the Wilderness (1878)
Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing (1874)
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