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by matt4077 3310 days ago
"A healthy society is one where old men plant trees they'll never eat from".
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A similar (probably apocryphal) anecdote about an Oxford University college: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-oxf...
"Pears for the heirs"