"Blood is thicker than water."
— Blood
January 1, 1970
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Attributed to Commodore Josiah Tattnall III. See 11th ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica in notice of Tattnall. Vincent S. Lean stated in Notes and Queries, 7th s., XIII, 114, he had found the proverb in the British Museum copy of the 1797 ed. of Allan Ramsay's Collection (1st ed., 1737). Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 73
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Attributed to Commodore Josiah Tattnall III. See 11th ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica in notice of Tattnall. Vincent S. Lean stated in Notes and Queries, 7th s., XIII, 114, he had found the proverb in the British Museum copy of the 1797 ed. of Allan Ramsay's Collection (1st ed., 1737). Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 73