Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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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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Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

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

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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

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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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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

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Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

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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 is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

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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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There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

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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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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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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

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There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

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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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The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.

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Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

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