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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save…

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months…
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a…
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for…
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes…
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of…
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still…

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There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. — Ann Richards
A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps. — Johnny Moss
I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS… — Michael Jackson
I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in… — Wladimir Klitschko
How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker
Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole. — Cassandra Clare
Hey!" Sam snapped, ducking the sticky shrapnel. "Keep your snot to yourself." Dev scoffed at that. "Oh, so now you don't want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His gold eyes grew very soft. “You said you loved me.” “You knew that already,” I reminded him, ducking my head. “It… — Stephenie Meyer
Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking… — Keri Arthur

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