“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 28.
“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
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