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

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Pity 's akin to love.[282:2]

Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.[282:3]

Sir Anthony Love. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Footnotes

[282:2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page [198].

[282:3] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley: The Plaindealer, act i. sc. 1.

A prince can make a belted knight,

A marquis, duke, and a' that;

But an honest man 's aboon his might: