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Lillie Langtry

"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."

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"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."

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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

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"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."

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"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

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"Gardening is not a rational act."

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"A good garden may have some weeds."

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

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

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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

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"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

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"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."

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"I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying."
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"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
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