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

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While Cato gives his little senate laws,

What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole

Can never be a mouse of any soul.[336:1]

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,

And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 369.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;