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“It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8b1e20055536e3bcbed029c73dfa74db6fff62d67613acc3ab00742e0ce4eb94
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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