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“Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 54.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 57c4a5148a9679379ffe3553f5e1fc5a3f1d2c76f1eb3a26d314326edd80ed21
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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