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«If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.»
«A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.»
«A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.»
«Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.»
Author: Mike Tyson (Boxer) | About: Fear | Keywords: alert, best friend, control it, cook, deer, lawn
«Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.»
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: Aurora, dewy, lawn, sprinkled
«A better farmer ne'er brushed dew from lawn, / A worse king never left a realm undone!»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: brushed, dew, farmer, lawn, undone
«A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.»
«Lawn as white as driven snow»

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