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“There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.”
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- Source:
- Of Cunning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fb5a64dc6035687c367f602d9fc1e07825e825fab685a14eac64e927a891d3e2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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