Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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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…
• The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
• 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…
• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the…
• A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
• 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…
• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
• 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.
• The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
• 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…
• Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
• Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
• Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
• Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less…
• 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…
• I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
• 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…
• 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…
• The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
• 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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