Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
world helping nations
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
cat going-away noses
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
success achievement attention
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
war hate men
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
regret apology long
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
absolute american-journalist
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
american-journalist came great knowledge nation nowhere until
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.