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

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Whatever is, is in its causes just.[276:2]

Œdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

His hair just grizzled,

As in a green old age.[276:3]

Œdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,—

Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.

Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years,

Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;