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Birds Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
- We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
- Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
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