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Brewer's: Smith of Nottingham
Ray, in his Collection of Proverbs, has the following couplet:
The little Smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can.
Applied to conceited persons who imagine that no one is able to compete with themselves.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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