To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life — this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

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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.

—Charles Dudley Warner

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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,

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

—Charles Dudley Warner

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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

—Salman Rushdie

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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

—Frederick Locker-Lampson

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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

—Daniel Boone

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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.