“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“Trees don't grow to the sky.”
On the inevitablility of down markets as well as up markets
July 26, 2002, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street
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to an empty sky —
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Variant translations:
The willow in the empty sky
spread her transparent fan
perhaps it were better
that I not be
your wife.
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St. 2.
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