"He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul."

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Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

Celia Thaxter

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“Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.”
“Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.”
“The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.”
“I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funnyâ€¦ What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.”
“In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.”
“Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.”
“Today, the average family has enough financial reserves to keep going for about three weeks. That's it.”

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“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”

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