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

The Twin Rivals. Act i.

[305:1] Leaving his country for his country's sake.—Fitz-Geffrey: The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 213 (1596).

True patriots all; for, be it understood,

We left our country for our country's good.

George Barrington: Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. New South Wales, p. 152.

[305:2] Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.—Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).

Necessity is the mother of invention.—Wycherley: Love in a Wood, act iii. sc. 3 (1672).

Magister artis ingenique largitor

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