Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 642 |
| AUTHOR: | Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) |
| QUOTATION: | You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? |
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| SUBJECTS: | Freedom |