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

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Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 218.

At leaving even the most unpleasant people

And places, one keeps looking at the steeple.

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 14.

There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms

As rum and true religion.

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 34.

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A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry

Of some strong swimmer in his agony.