“We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty! But remember there is this difference between us that with every autumn the old Leaves die, and with every spring new Leaves are born; but if the Roots once perish neither you nor the tree can live at all.”

—  Ivan Krylov

An argosy of fables, "The Leaves and the Roots" p. 398
The Fables (1883)

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