"Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit."
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"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom"
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"I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind."
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"Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors."
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"He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind."
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"The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love."
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"For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit."
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"Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability."
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"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”"
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"You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches."
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"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren."
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"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."
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"The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
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"Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard."
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"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls."
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"Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty."
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"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it."
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"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe."
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"Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb."
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"Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes."
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