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• No, thank you. My ears are too sweet now.
• Dear Lord: Please make my words sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
• Your sweet words suck the morning dew off the honeysuckle.
• Bitter pills may have sweet effects. -- Proverb
• Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. -- French Proverb
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle
• Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet. French Proverb
• Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished
  So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act ii, Sc....
• Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line 332...