Quote#Wisdom
Bone and Skin, two millers thin
Quote byJohn Byrom · 1692–1763
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Epigram on Two Monopolists as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
— John Byrom
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