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“Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 16b429928851ec86fee70699291548277dffbc8d87817402bea35aabe87554d8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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