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“Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e21369aef97062d0fcaf3a2c12f651bcc84e9f8c2da7bff7e472435dd10e7287
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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