“Who trusts to others for his food,
Waits long e’er he be satisfied.”

— Giovanni Maria Cecchi

Chi per l’altrui mani
S’imbocca, tardi si satolla.
Le Rappresentazion di Tobia, Act I., Scene III. — (Samuella).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 269.

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Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary 1518–1587

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