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Tree Quotes by Chanakya
- A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
- As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
- Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked…
- The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to…
- Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear…
- It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe…
- This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of…
- Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
- As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the…
- As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. - Chanakya
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- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
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