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“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 110687c68ce35e7d9f72015602413da09fbfeffdd8e7dbceb305df6f99842fa8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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