Flowers, Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

- Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.

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Wealth, Walter Bagehot

In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

- Walter Bagehot, The Waverly Novels (1858).

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