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Plum, prune
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Proverbs
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The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum.
Quotes
- What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? (Logan Pearsall Smith)
- Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. (Anthony Trollope)
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