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Peter of Blois

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Aqua turbida piscosior est.
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It's good fishing in troubled waters.
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Letter 50, to Henry, Bishop of Bayeux, 1170, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 155; translation from Provérbios Latinos.

 
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