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"Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden."

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
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"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."


"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."


"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."


"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."


"Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain."
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