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“To robbe Peter and pay Poule.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 68fff2260f71992afd16a65e2784f0f654e696c49285bb4669a3758c2fe2e552
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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