“Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.”
Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.
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Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Aphorisms (1880/1893)
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