Date: 1772
One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen
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Date: 1775
Women, "like garden-trees," seldom show fruit, "till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1800
"They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit-- / No juggling chance can metamorphose them. / Have I the human kernel first examined? / Then I know, too, the future will and action."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1808
"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
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