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Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
Approximate author period: c. 1707 AD · early modern
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- Alain René Le Sage
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- Approximate author period: c. 1707 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Gil Blas. Book viii. Chap. ix.
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