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

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Of all tales 't is the saddest,—and more sad,

Because it makes us smile.

Don Juan. Canto xiii. stanza 9.

Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away.

Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 11.

Society is now one polish'd horde,

Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 95.

All human history attests

That happiness for man,—the hungry sinner!—