About Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions. . . . Mud pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business,