The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

George Herbert
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More Quotes By George Herbert
  1. Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

  2. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.

  3. Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,

  4. I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.

  5. Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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