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Charles Dudley Warner

(1829—1900), "My Summer in a Garden"

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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Charles Dudley Warner

(1829-1900), in the Hartford Courant ca. 1890 (often attributed incorrectly to Mark Twain) Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. www.english-slang.com

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