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

Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

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

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

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

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

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

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

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

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

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

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

I have always known - That at last I would - Take this road, but...

I have always known - That at last I would - Take this road, but...

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had...

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had...

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a...

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a...

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

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

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely...

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely...

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus...

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus...

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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

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