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

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The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,

With bated breath and whispering humbleness.

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

For when did friendship take

A breed for barren metal of his friend?

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

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O Father Abram! what these Christians are,

Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect