And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
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First Week, First Day.Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
Karl Popper
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.Matthew Arnold
Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.William Shenstone
I hope that when London is clean passed away and the defeated fields come back again, like an exiled people returning after a war, they may find some beautiful thing to remind them of it all; because we have loved a little that swart old city.
Edward Plunkett Dunsany
All our geese are swans.
Robert Burton
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