More from Charles Dudley Warner

  1. 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.
  2. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
  3. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
  4. There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
  5. 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…
  6. We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
  7. Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
  8. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

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