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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it
Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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- Charles Dickens
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- Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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Supplied reference B; unit 189; PDF page 22; printed attribution: Charles Dickens; collection label: Famous quotations
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