“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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