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“It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 37ede9db9784eec156f97841828cd876a6410afda72634967f6aab8289998e95
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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