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“Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ff5a99fc4dadb576ec402b3de687746cef72528fa2b4c2329b91ab29e7ee83c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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