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| Charles Dudley Warner
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.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. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.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. No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have
turned out so differently.Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. 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. 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.What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. |
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