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“Bread is the staff of life.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tale of a Tub. Preface.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73997a2e2c67262d5fe4b677c88486d0e58e996ac03d496dc74a20f5f4cacfa3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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