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“You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 674.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 728c3b2d56d6cb1895c62c8d7c7f2c902fa7115483f29a3504327246441197a8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“You may as well expect pears from an elm.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“There 's small choice in rotten apples.”
William Shakespeare
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“Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy! If so be you ask me…”
Robert Herrick
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete,…”
Edmund Spenser
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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