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“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 68ec2ea1b75b361a3b08a04852951cd6d8378b29d8356a7a5214b2d34ef78849
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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