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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
Age: 96 †
Born: 1858
Born: March 15
Died: 1954
Died: December 25
Botanist
Horticulturist
Pteridologist
Writer
Ithica
New York
L.H.Bailey
Liberty H. Bailey
L. H. Bailey
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Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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Yesterday the twig was brown and bare To-day the glint of green is there Tomorrow will be leaflets spare I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!
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