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“An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7e746d25867d79bfbf137fad70112fee95ad3214c0a7713c8f2dd9fd68b49121
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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