“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
“He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.”
Canto I, line 490
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
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