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People Writer American essayist Humorist

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Other quotes by Charles Dudley Warner


People

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

- 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
People

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

- Charles Dudley Warner
Politics

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

- Charles Dudley Warner
Conformity

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

- Charles Dudley Warner
Chess Nothing Man

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

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