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• It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.
• A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman who builds up his morale.
• Mankind is the only one of God's creatures who will foul his own nest. -- Mildred Marti
• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoo
  My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set frui...
• The man who said "A bird in the hand's worth two in the bush" has been putting his bird in the *WRONG* bushes.
• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 285...