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“Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d058e6413c1d768e966bfa0b4a0c598094a6f6e67a178fdc938b06c6ed86e498
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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