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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."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."
"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 sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."
"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
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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."
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