Warner, Charles Dudley (Charles Dudley Warner)

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

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

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.


-- Charles Dudley Warner

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.


-- Charles Dudley Warner

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


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