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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  World, Faults, Persons

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• 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 imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Women, Imagination, Sentimental

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• The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Passion, Oats, Dirt

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Plot, Fiction

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.87

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• The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Reputation, Uncertain, Tenure

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.11, tredition

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• Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

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  Nature, Fancy, Facts

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.113

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• Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Toil, Pieces

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

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Choices, Age, Dies

  Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.28

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• It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fool, Aspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.62

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• A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

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  Real, Simple, Legends

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.3

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Spring, Hoe, Matter

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.20

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• 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 I find them.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Weed, Garden, Names

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

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  Class, Sometimes, Failing

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.23

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• Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Nature, Reform, Faults

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.61

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Elements, World, Revolution

  Charles Dudley Warner (1890). “Backlog Studies: Y Charles Dudley Warner”

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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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  Friendship, Wise, Men

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.123

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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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  Marriage, Husband, Taken

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.36

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• Politics makes strange bedfellows.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Politics, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

  My Summer in a Garden "FifteenthWeek" (1870) See Proverbs 237

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

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  Regret, Apology, Long

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

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• Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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  Blessed, Agriculture, Doe

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

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• There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Life, Speech

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• One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

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  Music, Voice, Singing

  Charles Dudley Warner (1875). “Backlog Studies”, p.175

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “In the Wilderness”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Strong, Public Opinion, Legislature

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Large Edition”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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