There isn't a wife in the world who has... by Charles Dudley Warner

Writer World Mind American Wife

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

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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

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

People

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Land

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

- Charles Dudley Warner

History

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Artist

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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