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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher
• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family… — Gabrielle Hamilton
• You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis
• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom… — Rabbi Akiva
• If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis
• The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson
• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo
• If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish

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