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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Law, June, Tea

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• Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

  Marilu Henner

  Vegetables, Energy, Negative

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  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Sweet

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Vegetables, Ice

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• Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Nuts, Vegetables, Guilt

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• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

  George du Maurier

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

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• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

  Hans Arp

  Mother, Art, Children

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fear, Limbs

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• Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

  Anna Pavlova

  Giving, Wish, Theatre

  Quoted in A H Franks (ed) Pavlova: A Biography,'Pages of My Life' (1956).

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• I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Boxing, Forbidden Love

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Conflict, Irrepressible

  John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

  Aristotle

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

  Kathy Mattea

  Perfect, Chocolate, Sublime

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  Walter Pater

  Understanding, Experience, Ends

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• Love is often the fruit of marriage.

  Moliere

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

  Dave Winer

  May Day, Happy Labor Day, Grows

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• God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

  Mike Royko

  Country, Nuts, West

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• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Issues, Social

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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