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“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 405f3c63d3f5c03688f75f80fafd8b75af9d5a7c555f5a591d5cd6af27d5f43e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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