Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wro…

Victor Hugo
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume One, p.14, Wordsworth Editions
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume One, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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