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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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 theground 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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
By Charles Dudley Warner
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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.
By Charles Dudley Warner
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
By Charles Dudley Warner
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
By Charles Dudley Warner
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
By Charles Dudley Warner