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• Criticism strips the tree of both caterpillars and blossoms.
• The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad.
• A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
• One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fulle
• The tree is known by his fruit. -- New Testament -- Matthew xii, 33
• Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 109...