Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit …

Charles Dickens
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. ✨ 1846-8 Captain Cuttle. Dombey and Son, ch.19.
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. ✨ 1846-8 Captain Cuttle. Dombey and Son, ch.19.

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