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“The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Heroic Epistle.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 60aad2fecaa3afd8d9d0e063a82f7f9a9c0ceb13b0b8d1495a0bbcbf4426afa6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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