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• Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. -- French Proverb
• Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet. French Proverb
• Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out. Jewish Proverb
• I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmle
  he poison is in the sugar. -- Stanislaw Lec...
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle
• Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected.
  She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hu...
• The wind doth taste so bitter sweet, Like Jaspar wine and sugar, It must have blown through someone's feet, Like those of Caspar Weinberger.
  -- P. Opu...
• Fry: Words. Nothing but sweet, sweet words that turn into bitter orange wax in my ears.