Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1898 - 1158 pages |
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... Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.2 Ibid More frayd then hurt . Ibid . Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.3 Ibid . Nothing is impossible to a willing hart . Ibid ...
... Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.2 Ibid More frayd then hurt . Ibid . Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.3 Ibid . Nothing is impossible to a willing hart . Ibid ...
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... Ibid . Ibid . Cut my cote after my cloth.5 Ibid . The neer to the church , the further from God . " Chap . ix . Now for good lucke , cast an old shooe after me . Better is to bow then breake . " It hurteth not the toung to give faire ...
... Ibid . Ibid . Cut my cote after my cloth.5 Ibid . The neer to the church , the further from God . " Chap . ix . Now for good lucke , cast an old shooe after me . Better is to bow then breake . " It hurteth not the toung to give faire ...
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... Ibid . Shee had seene far in a milstone.1 Ibid . Better late than never.5 Ibid . When the steede is stolne , shut the stable durre . Ibid . Pryde will have a fall ; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after . " She looketh as ...
... Ibid . Shee had seene far in a milstone.1 Ibid . Better late than never.5 Ibid . When the steede is stolne , shut the stable durre . Ibid . Pryde will have a fall ; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after . " She looketh as ...
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... Ibid . Many small make a great.3 Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe . Ibid . Better is halfe a lofe than no bread . Ibid . Nought venter nought have.1 Ibid . Children and fooles cannot lye . " Ibid . Set all at ...
... Ibid . Many small make a great.3 Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe . Ibid . Better is halfe a lofe than no bread . Ibid . Nought venter nought have.1 Ibid . Children and fooles cannot lye . " Ibid . Set all at ...
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... Ibid . Might have gone further and have fared worse . Ibid . The grey mare is the better horse.1 Ibid . Three may keepe counsayle , if two be away.2 Chap . v . Small pitchers have wyde eares . Ibid . Many hands make light warke . Ibid ...
... Ibid . Might have gone further and have fared worse . Ibid . The grey mare is the better horse.1 Ibid . Three may keepe counsayle , if two be away.2 Chap . v . Small pitchers have wyde eares . Ibid . Many hands make light warke . Ibid ...
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