Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829–October 20, 1900) was an American essayist and novelist.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 My Summer in a Garden (1870) 2 References 3 External links

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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.
  • Backlog Studies, "Second Study” (1873)

• There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
  • Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889)

• A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
  • Editorial, Hartford Courant (August 27, 1897)

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
  • Preliminary

• Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
  • Preliminary

• 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.
  • Preliminary

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

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

• Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
  • Ninth Week

• The toad, without which no garden would be complete.
  • Thirteenth Week

• Politics makes strange bedfellows.
  • Fifteenth Week

• What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
  • Fifteenth Week

• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.
  • Sixteenth Week

• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
  • Sixteenth Week

References

• My Summer in a Garden (1870), Project Gutenberg

External links

• Works by Charles Dudley Warner at Project Gutenberg

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