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

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The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 83.

For too much rest itself becomes a pain.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 429.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 433.

And taste

The melancholy joy of evils past:

For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 434.

For love deceives the best of womankind.