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

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

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

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

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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.

Charles Dudley Warner
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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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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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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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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Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

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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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