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“It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 93761571953d7751853a407d0388fa8141731814165a0cf09a6b89fc7778f666
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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