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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:9259
AUTHOR:François Rabelais (c. 1490–1553)
QUOTATION:What is got over the Devil’s back is spent under the belly. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Works. Book v. Chap. xi.
 
Note 1.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.—Alain René Le Sage: Gil Blas, book viii. chap. ix. [back]
 

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