"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

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Source : To a young lady; attributed

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Life Quotes #Flower Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”
“Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."”
“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
“... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.”
“I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.”
“I just want to make people smile.”
“I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.”
“I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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