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Quotes by Ed. H. Plumptres

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."— filed under Birds-Dove

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