“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
“On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.”
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