Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

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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 aspiration.

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

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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

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There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different

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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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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

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