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, Harmony, Which, Onions
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
New, Will, Like, New World
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Practice, Some, Needs, No Experience
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Deception, Matter, Always, Overdo
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Strong, Public, Commandments, Legislature
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
- Charles Dudley Warner
World, Only, Absolute, Estimate
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Like, Must, Scarcely, Sparkling
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Should, Wholly, Half, Conformity
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Politics, Strange, Makes, Bedfellows
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, Ordered, Exact
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Best, Dirty, Gratify, Instincts
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Generation, Comprehend, Thus, Ancestors
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
Feels, Tries, Nearly, Accomplishes
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Opportunity, Motives, Had, Generous
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Art, Small, Canvas, Picture
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Funny, Everybody, Does, Talks
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
People, Out, Before, Sun
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Love, Upset, Been, Indigestion
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
Small, However, Feels, Thousand
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Excellence, Gift, Christmas, Lies
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Regret, Idle, Turned, Differently
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Woman, Chess, Getting, Beaten
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
Help, World, Never, Nowhere
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Gardening, Needs, Hinge, Man Needs
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Journey, Simplicity, Making, Baggage
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
- Charles Dudley Warner
City, Land, Raised, Taxes
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