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And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame. -- Stella Gibbons
The rose is often found near the nettle. -- Ovid
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety. -- William Shakespeare
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. -- Isaac Asimov
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. -- Fiona Wood
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. -- William Shakespeare
Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -- William Shakespeare
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape -- Thornton Wilder

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