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

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And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty!

Let the toast pass;

Drink to the lass;

I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.

It was an amiable weakness.[442:1]

School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.

I ne'er could any lustre see