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The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance…
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The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm…
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out…
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No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts…
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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is…
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A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating…
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The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is…
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
— Donald C. Peattie
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
— H.G. Wells
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…
— Joseph Addison
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Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as…
— Robert Moses
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A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right
— Unknown Author
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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