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  -- Joanna Baillie...
• FARMERS plant it deep.
• Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 78
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
  True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation....
• The Beat-Inflation garden we planted so enthusiastically just two months ago is to be rededicated as an ecological exhibit.
  It illustrates zero growth....
• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Jan. 14, 1766...
• The plant has exceptionally deep roots and cannot be pulled free.
• Friendship must dare to risk, Counselor, or it is not friendship.
  -- Picard to Troi, "Conspiracy", stardate 41775.5...
• However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
  Peter Quennell...