Robin Lane Fox quotes
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“Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.”
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“Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.”
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“Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.”
-- Robin Lane FoxSource : Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA
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“Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour...”
-- Robin Lane FoxSource : Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”
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