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“A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a5234c15212d98e09db84fbc87b14d27902eb284f7fc2891ddab5089aff47b4e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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