No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989.
-- Margot Asquith, (Feb 2 1864-1945), English author; She was an eccentric, outspoken and shrewd influence on social, fashionable English life.