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“Set the cart before the horse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 79ed423cebde4ba4e46d430e1de2fa0e1da87d76eb124354c03a6b9b99416d31
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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