A Tour Round My Garden
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Source: A Tour Round My Garden
Source: A Tour Round My Garden
“So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.”
“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”
“Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”
“Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.”
“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”
“Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”
“Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.”
Source: A Tour Round My Garden
“A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”
“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.”
“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”