“Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
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“How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle.”
— Mateo Alemán, book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. IX.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
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