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It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

Source: Perseus in the Wind, ch. 17, 1948.
-- Freya Stark, (Jan 31 1893-1993), French-English explorer, travel writer; She marched alone into the Middle East from Persia to Yemen, discovering lost cities and creating an anti-Nazi intelligence system along the way.

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