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• Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. African(Zulu) Proverb
• How beautiful, how entrancing you are, my loved one, daughter of delights!
  You are stately as a palm-tree, and your breasts are the clusters of dates....
• Mister Roberts Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard.
  --Jack Lemmo...
• The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it. African(Wolof) Proverb
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. -- African proverb
• The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm xcii, 12...
• Only when a tree has fallen can you take measure of it. It is the same with a man.
• 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....