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

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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.

Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 604.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 606.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Johnsoniana. Seward. 617.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Prayers and Meditations. Against inquisitive and perplexing Thoughts.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Tour to the Hebrides. Sept. 20, 1773.