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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
• I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
• True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
• What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
• When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
• Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
• He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and…
• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the…
• Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

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