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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Green Tree

If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? (Luke xxiii. 31.) If the righteous can find no justice in man, what must not the unrighteous expect? If innocent men are condemned to death, what hope can the guilty have? If green wood burns so readily, dry wood would burn more freely still.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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