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The vegetable world presents an almost infinite variety of objects, calculated not only to supply our numerous wants, but to gratify the senses, to delight the most refined taste, and to elevate the mind to the God of Nature.
Henry Phillips
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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
Henry Phillips
Born:
1779
Died:
March 8, 1840
(aged 61)
Bio:
Henry Phillips was a botanist, horticultural writer and landscape gardener from the seaside resort of Brighton in England.
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