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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Thorns

The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed:
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 10.