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“What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works. Book v. Chapter xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f20452b6ba673c2452cc5820d0fe1aae11cbc1bfe922458b3f235c7bffd9d62
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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