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

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[323:2] Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods).—Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359.

[323:3] See Bacon, page [166].

[323:4] See Suckling, page [257].

[325:1]

Then gently scan your brother man,

Still gentler sister woman;

Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,

To step aside is human.

Burns: Address to the Unco Guid.

[325:2] See Shakespeare, page [96].