"My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered."

-- Claude Monet

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“The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.”
“if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.”
“You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach back into the tradition. Western tradition is not as impoverished as a lot of people would like to think, but you'd have to go back before the industrial revolution; you may have to go back farther than that. Of course, the Bible has a perfectly adequate language, but it's suffered a lot of thoughtless wear.”
“The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47
“We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.”
“In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.”
“The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.”
“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”

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