Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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  The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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

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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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• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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• The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.

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

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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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• There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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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.

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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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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• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

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

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• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

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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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• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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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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• Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

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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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Charles Dudley Warner (29)

Birth:	12th September, 1829
Death:	20th October, 1900
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

About

Charles Dudley Warner was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He was an American essayist and novelist. He co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor and editor of The Hartford Press. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden. He also edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving, and edited a large Library of the World's Best Literature.

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