"People always overdo the matter when they attempt…" — Charles Dudley Warner
"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
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72 Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
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- You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself…
- 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…
- To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of…
- 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…
- 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 world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike…
- There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be…
- 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.