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“I am a feather for each wind that blows.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“For raging wind blows up incessant showers, and when the rage allays, the rain begins. ” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 3” - 1595

“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“The wind passing through the skins of animals will make men dance.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” - 1861

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.” George R. R. Martin, “A Dance with Dragons” - 2011

“Calling cats . . . tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.” Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” - 2002

“In the end words are just wind.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

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