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"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."
"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."
"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."
"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."
"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."
Explore more quotes by Lucretius
"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."
"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."
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