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“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee8cad63bfb6260afd6ae3d5d1abd3a08e12dde7b652e633fa317310390748e5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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