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“Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"”
Provenance
- Source:
- On the Tranquillity of the Mind.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b036e9f99d0bd9dddd1f00893990d212e768b92de51bec77f944f3844aceef9f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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