"We are like people with short-term leases on……" — Mignon McLaughlin

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• Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. — Lord Chesterfield
• I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be… — Stephen King
• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an… — William Rothenstein
• All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage… — Reginald Farrer
• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the… — Horace
• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after… — Samuel Johnson
• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker… — George Orwell
• I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc — David Brainerd
• Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and… — Thomas Kinkade
• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life,… — Shirley Hazzard
• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness,… — Edmund Waller
• After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God,… — Primo Levi

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