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“A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book v. Fable 3, 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3de40df87ed3f41aae5ecb48cd432acab3a04f384e2228a6bd02b1d877fbd4e5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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