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Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"
Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Plutarch
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On the Tranquillity of the Mind.
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