the highest branch is not the safest roost en · X
Meanings
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A coveted position of power does not guarantee safety to the holder.
[…] the highest branch is not the safest roost. So the danger to the Dogras' position also was now the greatest.
1980, Manohar Lal Kapur, History of Jammu and Kashmir State: The making of the State, page 109:
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