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"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."

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

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

"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."

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."
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"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."

"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments."

"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."

"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."
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