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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗

— William Powell

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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. ↗

— David Ricardo

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