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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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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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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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Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
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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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Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
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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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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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Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed it has its own spring.
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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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April is a promise of what's to come.
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There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
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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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June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
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The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
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Happiness is a thing of now.
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Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
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Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.
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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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