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Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.
Gladys Taber
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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Colorado Springs
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Gladys Bagg Taber
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the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.
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History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.
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I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
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Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
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If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.
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Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
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Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
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My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.
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April is a promise of what's to come.
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Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
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My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
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A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.
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Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
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Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed it has its own spring.
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Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
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