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“It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacula Prudentum.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 235a6d35696577211b2aa1640bcd244f6bcfd776aebf6b3e348fe4e79508a897
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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