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“A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Yearly Distress.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a4d80b02d9eecfe16838208db3fb8d2e935e6de04896e06f640a570aa9260ff8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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