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Mrs Loudon was even more successful than her husband thanks to a single work, Practical Instructions in Gardening for Ladies, published in 1841, which proved to be magnificently timely. It was the first book of any type ever to encourage women of elevated classes to get their hands dirty and even to take on a faint glow of perspiration. This was novel almost to the point of eroticism. Gardening for Ladies bravely insisted that women could manage gardening independent of male supervision if they simply observed a few sensible precautions – working steadily but not too vigorously, using only light tools, never standing on damp ground because of the unhealthful emanations that would rise up through their skirts. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humor #home

How do they do it?” He stopped at her side, his eyes on the jugglers. It seemed impossible that not one ball fell to the ground. “Determination.” She elbowed him playfully. “And being willing to make a few mistakes. ↗

— Leigh LaValle

#life-and-living #life

If you don't like it, Eat me. ↗

— Rae Murphy

#rock-and-roll #warren-zevon #life

Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. ↗

— David Wroblewski

#life

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#god #life-lessons #love #life

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#boswell #corrupt #corruption #freedom #johnson

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words only and only if life have put and made us requiring them. ↗

— Toba Beta

#required #wise-words #life

There are certain moments in life of open-minded people... which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heaven #open-minded #life

if you had to pick between a sail boat and the love of your life i would pick the boat. A girl can leave you but all the boat would do is sail away with you on it and you would have a full heart AND a boat. mabey go with the girl you only get one chance at true love so.... girl. (possible still say boat) what do you pick? ↗

— kaeleigh simmons

#life

...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward") ↗

— Edith Wharton

#countryside #rural #rural-life #life