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“Better to give then to take.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a30ded905958541a479533044c8f836ba7ebd8a72bd638870fabd156116e2bbd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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