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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
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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.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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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.
Charles Dudley Warner
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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.
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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