A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
– Chinese Proverb
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- Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime a garden. – Chinese Proverb
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- Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off. – Proverb
- With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too. – Yiddish Proverb
- Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. – Mark Twain
- Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. – Mark Twain
- A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. – Henry Ward Beecher
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- Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the garden. – Irish Proverb
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