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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.