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“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f723b285ab955689ba395e902c1ae0de1de6ca758ccb7c1e326e3342c93bf5d0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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