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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. — Yip Harburg
• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are… — Geoffrey Zakarian
• Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried… — Violet Fane
• For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises,… — Audre Lorde
• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in… — Thomas Eakins
• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this… — Henry David Thoreau
• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its… — William Butler Yeats
• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor… — E. Nesbit
• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot… — Winston Churchill
• And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a… — Pietro Aretino
• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some… — Audrey Hepburn

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