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• When the tree is fallen [down], every man goes to it with his hatchet. -- Proverb
• I must say, when the doorman where I live puts up the Christmas tree in the lobby, he has the same friendly smile for those who have remembered him at Christmas and those who have not.
  Except that when he trims the tree, if you have not, there you are on the tree, hanging in effigy....
• Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves within it as the olde
  but without the plummet which can measure the depths. -- Richte...
• Measure twice because you can only cut once.
• Only God can make a tree, but only Man can drive by it so fast. -- Ferrari Driver.
• When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you. African(Wolof) Proverb
• The only problem with being a man of leisure is that you can never stop and take a rest.