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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
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
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
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
— Charles Dudley Warner
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
— Charles Dudley Warner
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
— Charles Dudley Warner
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
Politics make strange bedfellows.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
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
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.
— Charles Dudley Warner
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
— Charles Dudley Warner
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
— Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
— Charles Dudley Warner
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
— Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
— Charles Dudley Warner
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
— Charles Dudley Warner
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
— Charles Dudley Warner
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
— Charles Dudley Warner
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
— Charles Dudley Warner