| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Precocity |
| | | Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace. Shakespeare. | 1 |
| Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well. H. W. Shaw. | 2 |
| Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive. N. P. Willis. | 3 |
| It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. Quintilian. | 4 |
| Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. | 5 | | |
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