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Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room,

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. – Johnson

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Have you got the birds to play badminton? – Sporting joke

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His Highness playing at shuttle-cock with one far taller than himself, and hitting him by chance with the shuttle-cock upon the forehead — “this is,” quoth he, “the encounter of David with Goliath.” – Prince Henry, of his father, James the First

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May the birdies always land at your feet. – Badminton saying

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Badminton is for the birds. – Author unknown

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