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

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Florio. Part i.

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LORD STOWELL.  1745-1836.

A dinner lubricates business.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.

The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.[437:1]

Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell). Vol. x. Chap. 212.

Footnotes

[437:1] The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.—Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield): Endymion.

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