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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

“Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden

“You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.”

Ifs Want Hate Justice Becoming Diversity Social Justice Mere Discrimination Save Yourself Good Nature

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

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

“If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.”

Ifs Done Faces Cat Moved Affection Noses Going Away Delicate Coats Sleeves

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“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.”

Ifs Men World Feels Earth Bits Beauty Four Thousand Property Surface Miles Ownership Handsome Thousand Miles

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.”

People Ifs Would Be Opportunity Majority Convinced Selfish Generosity Generous Motive Selfish Motives

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“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

“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

“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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