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A Rest! What MIght It Mean?

If it's by Mozart it means "Watch out!"  You never know with him.  More often than not it is a deceptive tactic inserted into the line to tease you into thinking you know what you're doing when it turns out that it was put there merely to call attention to a line by interrupting it.

He has been known to do this sometimes at double bars; also between movements.

I know: you were taught, as I was, that phrases had beginnings and ends and that rests were one indication of punctuation.  Ah me! another lesson to outlive.