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Famous quotes containing the word stem:

    “The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.”
    —Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    “Apples? New Hampshire has them, but unsprayed,
    With no suspicion in stem end or blossom end
    Of vitriol or arsenate of lead,
    And so not good for anything but cider.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)