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“The fat is in the fire.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d81c534ee8e9cadfb8cd7db906ad31a13d14055f87362279bf103d1672fe5e58
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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