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“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20a187d4b6b1d42a1ac823abeb8b590aaac3513b4efff4009bd5a75795eff2ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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