Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.
In plain words
Learning to fly from birds was like learning tricks from a magician.
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- Birds in Our Lives (ed. Stefferud & Nelson), 1966 — posthumous compiled quote
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