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

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And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

Christopher Smart: The Trip to Cambridge (on "Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets," vol. vi. p. 185).

[363:2] Sober as a judge.—Charles Lamb: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Moxon.

[363:3] See Addison, page [300].

[363:4] See Heywood, page [20].

[363:5] Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.—Plutarch: How a Young Man ought to hear Poems.

[363:6]

A penny saved is twopence dear;

A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Franklin: Hints to those that would be Rich (1736).