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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

"Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden."
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

"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."

"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."

"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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