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In Ecclesiasticus it is written:
“Leave off first for mannersʹ sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.”—Chap. xxxi. 17.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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