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Beverley Nichols has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are…
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
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Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I…
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you…
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close…
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and…
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I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though…
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and…
— Eugene Chadbourne
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
— Beverley Nichols
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
— Edvard Munch
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
— Igor Stravinsky
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The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful…
— Erin Morgenstern
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs…
— Rumi
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Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
— Edward Moore
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