“The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,” the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, “lest otherways ye’ll be a girl afore ye’re a man.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 31, “The Councils of the Prince” (p. 502).
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