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“A proverb and a byword.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 790a6abd386eb642e598a7dd4b50e2519dba49527f303058f64115eeea8396b5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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