Talk:Charles Dudley Warner

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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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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

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

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