Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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• 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

  Sweet, Fire, Apples

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

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Christmas, Lying, Generosity

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

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• 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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Garden

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

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Travel, Carpe Diem

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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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

  Food, Bitterness, Culinary

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

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• The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Love, Running, Business

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

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• A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Responsibility, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Reading, Mind, Doe

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

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sides, Argument, Difficult

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120

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• No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beauty, Men, World

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

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Simple, Journey

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

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• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lying, Hype, People

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Wall, Lying, Trying

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

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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Boys, Practice, Experience

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “Being A Boy”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Appreciation, Money, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.199, Boston J.R. Osgood 1871.

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• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Ignorance, Glowing, Doe

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

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• Politics make strange bedfellows.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  World, Helping, Nations

  "Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada". Book by Charles Dudley Warner, 1889.

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• A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Artist, Canvas

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

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

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• A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Science, Weather

  Editorial in Hartford Courant, August 27, 1897.

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• 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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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