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

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A Cure for the Heartache. Act v. Sc. 2.

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SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.  1765-1832.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Vindiciæ Gallicæ.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Vindiciæ Gallicæ.

Disciplined inaction.

Causes of the Revolution of 1688. Chap. vii.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.