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But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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The speaker rejects fruit so mellow that it falls without being shaken. The image makes easy availability a reason for refusal; the retained couplet leaves the wider object of that comparison unstated.
- Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1891)The AnswerReference checked
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