Quotes with orchard

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

  Horace Mann
  American educator (1796 - 1859)
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• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver
  American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• storehouse
• counselors
• multitude
• graveyard
• perfectly
• remember

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