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“Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 723.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0dcef2373cd83a6892d47f77cee886c322b5f1838aba67eb6f616401e22f9c98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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