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

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In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 379.

And every eye

Gaz'd, as before some brother of the sky.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 17.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 192.

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And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky.[344:1]

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 366.