Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
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Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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