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“To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacula Prudentum.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ef11681766bd21da516fd93125e15ce511410c9c0677e1662c5b032f4fdba9c0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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