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“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book i. Fable 4, 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9f2c2108435e054b0b1cfcd41bc2ca8e573dac5b6bb9a7da78bb5d2699ab8ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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