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“Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 593.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f360d535e0aa2b5075e95528f90703216ef0b22aaef4a15abc877787fdd8014f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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