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“It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7e3a22e39d803d2745c03ef51b2b1ddb1848bea99ecf5139878b7dcb4e92154a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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