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“For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c5d82618e2ea52959eebdf88ad25aa9ab5c47e184daf02b571566e306a9bef96
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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