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Isolation breeds conceit.
Politics make strange bedfellows.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.