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Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

American - Journalist | September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Charles Dudley Warner

Morning Today Tomorrow World New

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Charles Dudley Warner

Woman Man Chess Nothing Like Beaten

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.

Charles Dudley Warner

Family Time Together Happy World

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner

History Regret Long Idle Everything

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.

Charles Dudley Warner

Man World Small Deep Handsome More

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.

Charles Dudley Warner

Power Walls Nobody Him Being Lies

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner

Ignorance Generation Ancestors Own

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.

Charles Dudley Warner

Wife Mind World Husband Measure She

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

Charles Dudley Warner

Best Long Dirty First Pure Our

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles Dudley Warner

Opinion Strong Stronger Legislature

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Charles Dudley Warner

Fire Sun People Sweet Apple Out

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner

Knowledge Great World Help Go Never

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