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“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fff95717cdd21682bb3ad919976266d47184f50ee865d0c8be4a68d20d748d25
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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