One of the best things in the world to b... by Charles Dudley Warner | We Heart Quotes

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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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Other quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

Power Being

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Deep Man World

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

Gardening Man

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Value Worth World

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Wife Mind World

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Excellence Value

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

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