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The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts - Illustration on loyalty | IllustrateTheWord

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The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts

By AesopSource: Aesop's Fables - Project Gutenberg (Public Domain)19 words

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends

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