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

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Strange all this difference should be

'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.[351:2]

As clear as a whistle.

Epistle to Lloyd. I.

The point is plain as a pike-staff.[351:3]

Epistle to a Friend.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin,

Would starve us all, or near it;

But be it known to Skin and Bone