More from Charles Dudley Warner

  1. We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
  2. There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
  3. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
  4. People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
  5. 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.
  6. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
  7. 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…
  8. Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

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