- pears for your heirs
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Origin
Pear trees take many years to mature and give fruit. You don't plant them for yourself but for your heirs.
Meaning and origin of phrases. 2013.
pears for your heirs
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walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs — The idea of ‘planting trees for posterity’ is much older than the specific references to walnuts and pears. Cf. CICERO Cato Major vii. 24 ‘serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint,’ ut ait Statius noster in Synephebis, ‘he plants trees, which… … Proverbs new dictionary
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plant — see it is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs he who plants thorns should not expect to gather roses … Proverbs new dictionary
heir — see walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs … Proverbs new dictionary
pear — see walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs … Proverbs new dictionary
tree — see as a tree falls, so shall it lie the tree is known by its fruit the apple never falls far from the tree he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you… … Proverbs new dictionary
walnut — see a woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs … Proverbs new dictionary
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literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
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