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“Fine feathers don't make fine birds.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“The living bird is not its labelled bones.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I would I were thy bird.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, in there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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