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

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Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 145.

They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,

Produce their debt instead of their discharge.

Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 147.

None think the great unhappy but the great.[310:2]

Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 238.

Unlearned men of books assume the care,

As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 83.

The booby father craves a booby son,