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

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Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 147.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,

Content to dwell in decencies forever.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 163.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;

But every woman is at heart a rake.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 215.

See how the world its veterans rewards!

A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 243.