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“The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9b6a0fb39142ae33c0d889749d642bac8f52208d27cd9aefe1c95d6f9fff212
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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