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If One Cannot Catch The Bird Of Paradise, Better Take A Wet Hen.
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If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khruschev [in Time Magazine, 1958]
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. -- Nikita Khrushchev
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Are you trying to catch the bird?
The bird was unafraid when you entered, but as you approach it becomes disturbed and you cannot catch it.
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-- Mark Twai...
Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen...