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“He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 816a776eecddc28d2417dcc34d54f32eda52557432f61bd8b88a2b46c889f565
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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