“God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013) Israeli rabbi
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Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).