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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

The flowers of spring are winter’s dreams related at the breakfast table of the angels.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, “See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep.”
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, “Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!”

Turtles can tell more about the roads than hares.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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