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“To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Laconics.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c6bbba056861dfaa714447dc6b3f7070a36f8f9e98bedebaafb1d1a554d9b64c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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