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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like…

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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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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon… — Aubrey Newman
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality. — Edward Abbey
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. — Grant Wood
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner
Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now". — Robert Holden
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking… — Tony Visconti
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about… — Bill Vaughan
I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me.… — Billy Graham
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee.… — Zora Neale Hurston
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means… — H. L. Mencken
Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit… — James Patterson

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