“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
English Proverbs (1659)
“2033. He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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