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“Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5bdc88507409faf4d768076dabc74be2e12228afd1b9c0467caf36dc6e3c2f27
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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