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

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Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

The Traveller. Line 282.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,

I see the lords of humankind pass by.[395:2]

The Traveller. Line 327.

The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.

The Traveller. Line 356.

For just experience tells, in every soil,

That those that think must govern those that toil.

The Traveller. Line 372.