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Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. - Francis Bacon, Apothegms (no. 54) The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbored by fruit of baser quality; And so the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness, which, no doubt, Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Ely at I, i)
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