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"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."
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"We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet."
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"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."
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"I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet."
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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"When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity."
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"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."
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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."
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"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."
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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."
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"Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese."
Eye
"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
Gardening
"There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries."
Business
"One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers."
Love
"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
Houses
"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
Open
"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."
Gardening
"The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced."
Country
"We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves."
Wood
"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."
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