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Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.

— Alfred Austin The Garden That I Love (1894)

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Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.

Haunts of Ancient Peace (1902)

Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious.

The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)

Whatever else he may do, a critic reveals and criticises himself.

In Veronica's Garden (1895)

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.

The Garden That I Love (1894)

Public opinion is no more than this,
What people think that other people think.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

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