“He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.”

— Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 490
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

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poet and satirist 1612–1680

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“He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.”