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Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

— Alessandro Allegri

Non istuzzichi più il can che dorme.

Original text (Italian)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Slightly altered in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 198: "Non stuzzicare il can che dorme."

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