Nan Fairbrother Quotes

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• A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
• ... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the…
• As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings,…
• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when…
• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
• There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through…
• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,…
• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is…
• It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely…
• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be…
• Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give…
• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we…

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