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“As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 67686ae170b3b75800f5c14d1252ad74716f4fca2c243801045c16f13b2fa6c8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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