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“Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Fables. Part i. The Mastiffs.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cac746a0954b8cc28df6f26195f438d3d947bbf992c2dd5555377c6611f1a329
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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