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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to g

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. – John Steinbeck

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. – Terri Guillemets

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education. – Simon van der Meer

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