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I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
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- Sharon Kay Penman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Sharon Kay Penman: life dates 1945 to 2021. Wikidata Q7490109, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7490109 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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