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“At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 366.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 57ca254bf720c3d29faacd32e38a62863b1cd86fcf4e6370d70596bc7db0ce85
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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