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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 8664 |
| AUTHOR: | Publius Syrus (42 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Maxim 674. |
| Note 1. You may as well expect pears from an elm.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl. [back] |
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