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John Bartlett
(1820–1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
1919.
NUMBER:
9170
AUTHOR:
Diogenes Laërtius
(fl. early 3d cent.)
QUOTATION:
Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.
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ATTRIBUTION:
Pythagoras. xvii.
Note 1.
See Spenser,
Quotation 28
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