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| Better the fruit lost than the tree. German. | 1 |
| Blossoms are not fruits. Dutch. | 2 |
| But the fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me. Mrs. Montagu. | 3 |
| Can you mature fruit by beating it with a stick when it does not ripen of itself? Tamil. | 4 |
| Forbidden fruit is sweetest. | 5 |
| Fruit ripens not in the shade. | 6 |
| Fruit and grain are half a year in concocting. Bacon. | 7 |
| If you would fruit have, you must carry the leaf to the grave; i.e., you must transplant your trees about the fall of the leaf. | 8 |
| I would have the fruit, not the basket. | 9 |
| If you would enjoy the fruit pluck not the flower. | 10 |
| Late fruit keeps well. German. | 11 |
| Little wood, much fruit. Dutch. | 12 |
| No autumn fruit without spring blossom. | 13 |
| Nothing so good as forbidden fruit. French. | 14 |
| That which blossoms in the spring will bring forth fruit in the autumn. | 15 |
| The better the fruit the more wasps to eat it. German. | 16 |
| The fruit falls not far from the stem. Dutch. | 17 |
| The ripest fruit first falls. Shakespeare. | 18 |
| There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens. Italian. | 19 |
| We cannot eat the fruit whilst the tree is in blossom. Benjamin Disraeli. | 20 |
| When all fruit fails welcome haws. | 21 |
| You seek for fruit in the garden of Tantalus. Latin. | 22 |
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