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“A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f67014498e856c14af9a5f437aaade6131cabb0d6a5b9ee4a8545bf71bdcff9e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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