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Charles Dudley Warner was an American novelist born on September 12, 1829, and died on October 20, 1900. Known for his humor and satire, his works include notable titles such as 'The Country of the Pointed Firs'.

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Famous Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

“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.”

People Men Mind Doe Friendship Quality Wise Capable Extremes Comparison Permit

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“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”

World Needs Boys Practice Experience Best Things

Book:Being A Boy

Source: Being A Boy

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Wells Marriage Taken Wife Design Husband Specifications

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“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.”

Feels Years May Has Beens Friendship Chance Regret Years Of Life

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“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.”

Voice Can Do Music Pure Singing Advantage Neighbor Disadvantages

Book:Backlog Studies

Source: Backlog Studies

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

World Fire Simplicity Woods Enjoyment Simple Life Simple Living Poke

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“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.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“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.”

Life Inspirational Pleasure Equal Speech Dinner

Author: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.”

May Equal Garden Delight May Day

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

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

Firsts Long Pure Instinct Dirty Purity Pie Mud Naughty Oats Mud Pies

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

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

Inspirational Might Potatoes

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“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.”

Said Soul Beautiful Food Essence Cooking Culinary Vegetables Onions Wrapping Satin

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“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.”

Should May Faces Growth Sun Too Much Tree Garden Grateful Shining Shade Rays Sweat Vegetables Interfere Be Grateful Potatoes Blades Pouring

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

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

Mind Doe Reading Worth Reading

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

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

Ifs Doe Too Much Blessed Agriculture

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

Source: The Complete Works of 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.”

People Doe Sun Fire Sweet Goodness Apples

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

Politics Strange Bedfellows Strange Bedfellows

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

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

Difficult Sides Argument

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

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

Real Might Simple Modern Legends Cynicism Motto Modern Life Cynic Artificiality

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

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

Fool Aspiration

Book:Backlog Studies

Source: Backlog Studies

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

Age Dies Choices

Book:Backlog Studies

Source: Backlog Studies

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

Men Fiction Creation Every Man Endless Combination Plot Exhausted

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Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

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

Long Past Memories Journey Characteristics Absent

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

“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.”

Facts Nature Havens Fancy Pilgrimage Promoters Uneasiness Excursions

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

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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.”

Knows Believe Doe Facts Opinion Subjects Effects Conviction Chiefs Heat Defence

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“Isolation breeds conceit.”

Solitude Isolation Conceit

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

“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.”

Ifs Jobs Hours Effort Pay Havens Workers Driven Streams Sail Scourge

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

About the Author

Born: September 12, 1829
Died: October 20, 1900
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 77

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