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

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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 6.

'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;

A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in 't.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 51.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 66.

As soon

Seek roses in December, ice in June;

Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;