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“Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b44e920ef5e9044584e89ad99383ef8221a6f545445af3c2208d7e709ac02ed8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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