"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
-Marcelene Cox
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"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.“
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"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
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"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
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"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
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