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Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

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
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
Life
Richer
Neighbor
Makes
Art
Good

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There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
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Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
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The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
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The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
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Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
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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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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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November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
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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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Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
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Happiness is a thing of now.
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The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
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June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
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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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the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
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Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
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Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed it has its own spring.
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There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
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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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