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“A close mouth catches no flies.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 68ff35aaaf1d8fd1afbd5e0ad8d04dede3bc47c61e9de75a8fa24273fd70d6cd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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