Charles Dudley Warner - My Summer in a Garden (1870)

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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.

Charles Dudley Warner
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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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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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

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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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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

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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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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

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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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Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

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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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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

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The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

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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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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

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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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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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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

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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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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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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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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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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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