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Quote card: Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

“Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.”

Aaron Hill, poem on a nettle (18th century). The source of the saying 'grasp the nettle'.

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