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

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Flattering dust with eternity.

Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2.

By all that 's good and glorious.

Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2.

I am the very slave of circumstance

And impulse,—borne away with every breath!

Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The dust we tread upon was once alive.

Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

For most men (till by losing rendered sager)