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Millstones of Montisci

(The). They produce flour of themselves, whence the proverb, “Grace comes from God, but millstones from Montisci” (Boccaccio: Decameron, day viii. novel 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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