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Charles Dudley Warner Biography

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Became, Helping, Knowledge, Nations, Nowhere, World

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

Done, Essentials, Garden, Men, Planted

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.

Extremes, Friends, Friendship, Men, Mind, Wise

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Cities, City, Garden, Generally, Land, Taxes

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.

Believe, Boy, Boys, Expects, Morning, Today

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

Legislature, Public Opinion, Strong, Stronger, Ten

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Garden, Grateful, Growth, Potato, Shade, Vegetables

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.

Designs, Husband, Marriage, Taken, World

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

Aspiring, Class, Failing, Prophecy, Sometimes, Things

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Delight, Garden, Life, Men, Plant

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

Dirty, Gratify, Instincts, Long, Naughty, Oats

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.

Music, Neighbor, Pure, Same, Singing, Voice

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

Age, Choices, Death, Die, Dies

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Appreciation, Estimate, Money, World, Worth

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?

Hate, Indigestion, Men, War, Wars

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Argument, Difficult, Emphatic, Side, Sides

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

Being Different, Conformity, Half, Ruined, Wholly

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Friends, Fruit, Prosperity, Ripe, Shows

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.

Fishing, Lakes, Method, Part, Person, Sea

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

Enough, Journey, Life, Simple, Simplicity

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