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“Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0ae5178595dae380e21a5433fdfebe5be7b3cb4c3fd75dfc286e4d913ec2f4b5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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