Steam rises from a bowl of dark soup resting on crumpled cloth.

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Thomas Fuller

Enquire not what boils in another's Pot.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Do not pry into what other people are privately cooking up or coping with. The line advises restraint about curiosity toward others' domestic affairs, since their business is their own. It carries a mild proverbial warning that poking around in someone else's household may bring trouble or knowledge you have no right to.

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