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“Friends are like money, easier made than kept.”

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This volume presents a compilation of Samuel Butler's handwritten notebooks, offering a glimpse into the mind of a prominent Victorian writer. The notebooks contain a mix of literary musings, philosophical reflections, and personal anecdotes, providing a unique insight into Butler's creative process and intellectual pursuits. more

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler was an English poet celebrated for his satirical and philosophical works. Living during the English Renaissance, he is known for his wit and critical thinking. Butler's poetry often reflected on the human condition and the complexities of society. more

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

Ifs World Want Humans Soul Spirituality Literature Music Clear Painting Garden Architecture Absence Paradise Thrive Gardening Great Garden

Author:Thomas Moore

“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.”

Life Particular Grew Shapes Garden Roots Experts Stem Leafs Gardener Specialists Caterpillars

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.”

Real Country Wealth Land Glory Garden Increase Trade Agriculture Stamina Real Strength

Book:A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

Source: A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

“The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.”

World Seems Bears Garden Fruit Visible Labour Meaningless

Author:Pam Brown

“If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.”

Ifs Want Long Fall Forever Long Time Garden Falling In Love Drunk Gardening Short Time Want To Be Happy

Author:Arthur Smith

“Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.”

Ifs Design Garden Sake Patterns Disaster Tendencies Designer Frustration Owners

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

Matter Reading Novel Argument Impression

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles