The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. - Charles Dudley Warner - Quotesmemo.com

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Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

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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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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

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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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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.

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