Plants too often removed will not thrive.

 

Plants too often removed will not thrive.
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as those that settled be.

 

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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