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“The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- edb1778e21e2e3337d1f299c6882364cbe0452e660e2b2969c466b93e63178b1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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