The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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Charles Dudley Warner
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About Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Charles Dudley WarnerPolitics makes strange bedfellows.
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.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in 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.