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

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Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,

Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 7.

A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase

By which such things are settled nowadays.

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 78.

The drying up a single tear has more

Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 3.

Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt