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Ken Thompson

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

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

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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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"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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"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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"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."

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