Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,—

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv. The Worship of Æsculapius, Line 155.

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,

Can draw you to her with a single hair.[274:2]

Persius. Satire v. Line 246.

Look round the habitable world: how few

Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Juvenal. Satire x.