“He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 490
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
— Jerome
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
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