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“When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Diogenes. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3475a4bd02c54f9826a0826b507266ecfac675896aa88337224c40087cef2042
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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