Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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