Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
Id liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
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