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“Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f09f085e401277f61f21d7dd8bcebbd6f4c168c34330fcf2fe9ffdc2b8ae55ab
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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