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“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6baf664b2e220c258600dd9b1da7db3f410441f30845b2533193291bd7534392
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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