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“You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8dfbaf473a25ba8a4b037ce3de73d1d16a4ece1686874fd8fab159d452f1a8b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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