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“As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tale of a Tub. Sect. vii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7efd7b0b1412e4cfee79c45fad8d9d76c881f7f8eb369175ab5c0f29c89c23f0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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