“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

—  Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Variant: Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Source: The Secret Garden

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English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

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