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Letter "F" » fig
«The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.»
«Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? / And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: / And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.»
«The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.»
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«They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.»
«Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.»
«No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.»
«The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion»
«The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf»
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