"Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes." — Ovid

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• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself… — Johann Arndt
• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great… — Abigail Adams
• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty… — Jacques Barzun
• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who… — Saint Basil
• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest… — Francis Beaumont
• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for… — Joseph Addison
• I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat… — Victoria Beckham
• There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a… — Ezra Taft Benson

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