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Did you ever hear my definition of marriage?
It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
Shear Love
Sydney Smith shares his definition of a strong marriage.
Ernest Tomlinson: Love-in-a-Mist
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Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) is a cottage garden annual in the buttercup family, with star-shaped blue, white, pink, or purple flowers. It takes its name from the lacy foliage that guards the flowers like a delicate cage. In the ‘language of flowers’ beloved of the nineteenth-century English, it symbolised (among other things) openness to love, but also perplexity and complex relationships.
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Love-in-a-Mist
Second Suite of English Folk Dances
A gentle English dance, orchestrated by Ernest Tomlinson.
