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“Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Gil Blas. Book viii. Chap. ix.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 77d36cb4e961b9701e04041a52d67defa0188f65e01a991b7b53003493ab5162
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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