“To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?”
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
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Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”

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Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)
“I am not a big banyan tree; I am a less green bush, the more you cut, the more I grow”
Quoted in Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, "Poetic identity," http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/19/stories/2008101950080200.htmThe Hindu, India, 19 October 2008

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