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• From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. Greek Proverb
• A rose by any other name would likely be "deadly thorn-bearing assault vegetation.
  -- Robert Bullock...
• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 256...
• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -- Saadi
• A rose is a rose is a rose.... ----'--,-{@
• He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb
• The only rose without thorns is friendship.