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

— Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden (1870)

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889)

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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