Aphorisms about Birds

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Aphorisms about Birds
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Crisp pages of goatskin vellum are bound into a codex.

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Aphorisms about Birds is a book containing a set of sayings about Birds.

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[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

Birds can't eat rice that wasn't planted.


[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

Reared on the wisdom of our fairy tales, we're accustomed to feeling pity for the man who's transformed into a frog or finch, but seldom is it that we spare a thought for the artless beast who's transformed into a man and upon whom fate has surely played a much crueler trick.


[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

If asked who's responsible for your misfortunes, blame birds. They neither care, nor can they muster much of a defense.


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Let no fear in your heart grow so immense as the fear for large birds.


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Birds ruin festivals and lift sieges.


[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

Ol' Uri squinted and then nodded at the glowcrow's suggestion for a game of backgammon.

The boy started. "But Uri! How can you dice with these vermin after one pecked out your eye?"

Uri shrugged, "Can't blame the crow. He was gonna peck, whether my eye was there or not."


[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

The sighting of a crimson swift augurs the death of an aged water baron.

A silver thrush heralds a fossil harvest bountiful in chrome.

But the tongueless kagu... stay far from a tongueless kagu. Far and farther.


[ Aphorisms about Birds ]

Some birds breathe fire. My meaning here is plain.


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Atop the Spindle, where debtors and birds go.


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  • Aphorisms about Birds is one of multiple items that reference a figure named Uri.