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• The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Believe, Doe, Facts

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.83

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Garden, Land, Cities

  My Summer in a Garden "SixteenthWeek" (1870)

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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?

  Charles Dudley Warner

  War, Hate, Men

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• 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 done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Cat, Going Away, Noses

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Family, Happiness, Being Happy

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Emotional, Feelings, Needs

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.34

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Flower, Men, He Man

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.18

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Chess, Disgusting

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Loss, Circles, Confusion

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• 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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Friendship, Regret, Years

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• The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Women, Moral, Walks

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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• Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Memories, Past, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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• A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Boys, Genius, Boyhood

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• I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Success, Achievement, Attention

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Jobs, Effort, Pay

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Selfish, Opportunity, People

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beautiful, Food, Essence

  "My Summer in a Garden".

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Dirty, Naughty, Pie

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.15

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Being Different, Half, Conformity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.172

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Garden, Delight, May

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.19

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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

  Beauty, Accomplishment, Grace

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.35

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• Isolation breeds conceit.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Solitude, Isolation, Conceit

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Might, Potatoes

  My Summer in a Garden "FifteenthWeek" (1870)

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