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

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Meat, fire, and clothes. B.  What more? P.  Meat, fine clothes, and fire.

Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 79.

But thousands die without or this or that,—

Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 95.

The ruling passion, be it what it will,

The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 153.

Extremes in Nature equal good produce;

Extremes in man concur to general use.