O Generation of Vipers.[65 L.J.]

"Is love a generation of vipers?"

--Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1.

The Olive Leaf.[30 T.J.]

"One final deluge to surprise the Ark
Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top:
Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo,
Back with the olive in her bill for news
Sorrow was over?"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings[22 S.A.], [237 L.J.]

"He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."

--Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1.