... garden books are quite ...

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
 Nan Fairbrother

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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 Seneca the Younger
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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 Sigmund Freud
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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 Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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 Abraham Lincoln
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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 Winston Churchill

Quotes from the same author

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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 Nan Fairbrother
Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
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 Nan Fairbrother