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

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Will back their own opinions by a wager.

Beppo. Stanza 27.

Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto,

Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

Beppo. Stanza 32.

His heart was one of those which most enamour us,—

Wax to receive, and marble to retain.[554:1]

Beppo. Stanza 34.

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

Beppo. Stanza 39.