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

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Break, break, break.

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

The Brook.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,—

That codeless myriad of precedent,

That wilderness of single instances.

Aylmer's Field.

Rich in saving common-sense,

And, as the greatest only are,