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

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 178.

Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 197.

Round numbers are always false.

Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 235.

As with my hat[375:3] upon my head

I walk'd along the Strand,