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"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

January 1, 1970

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Pilpay, The Two Fishermen, Fable XIV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. "It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone." Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act I, scene 1.

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Pilpay, The Two Fishermen, Fable XIV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. "It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone." Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act I, scene 1.