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«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.»
«There is always some fig leaf being used.»
Author: Gary Hart (Senator) | Keywords: fig, fig leaf
«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.»
«They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fig, fig tree, vine
«Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: fig, fig tree, shade
«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.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: fig, grapes, 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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