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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?


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This page presents the quote "Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?". Author of this quote is Rumi. This quote is about pleasure, nightingales, cages, crow, spiritual, song, heard, giving,.