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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

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

Knows May Grows Responsibility Essentials Garden Awful Gardening Ecology

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

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“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.”

Knows Names Garden Plant Weed Adam

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

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“The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.”

Knows World Needs Feelings Earth Pay Emotion Know How Emotional Strikes Dirt

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

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“I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.”

Knows Success Attention Achievement Price Of Success

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

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“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

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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

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About the Author

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

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