The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence. Charles Dudley Warner More Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner More Quotes From Charles Dudley Warner I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is. Charles Dudley Warner achievement success attention 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. Charles Dudley Warner going-away cat noses Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Charles Dudley Warner dies choices age Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless. Charles Dudley Warner plot men fiction A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. Charles Dudley Warner boyhood genius boys It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. Charles Dudley Warner aspiration fool A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner women moral walks The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. Charles Dudley Warner tenure reputation uncertain Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. Charles Dudley Warner journey memories past The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Charles Dudley Warner oats dirt passion Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. Charles Dudley Warner fancy nature facts The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever. Charles Dudley Warner kindness forever heart If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not. Charles Dudley Warner effort pay jobs It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone. Charles Dudley Warner fishing sea rivers It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. Charles Dudley Warner fishing sea lakes Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. Charles Dudley Warner prosperity friends fruit 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. Charles Dudley Warner toil pieces men A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. Charles Dudley Warner legends real simple Politics makes strange bedfellows. Charles Dudley Warner strange-bedfellows strange politics Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. Charles Dudley Warner hoe matter spring
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