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“After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d4d0c7a0e60b243467dcf473b385f8ef0d7f0e0c463d1b4feccfd4b7db13c882
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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