"Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's……" — Nan Fairbrother
"Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments."
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12 Quotes by Nan Fairbrother
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden,…
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a…
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that…
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in…
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A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The…
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It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the…
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest…
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Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own…
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