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

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Proving absurd all written hitherto,

And putting us to ignorance again.

Cleon.

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs;

And Æschylus, because we read his plays!

Cleon.

Rafael made a century of sonnets.

One Word More. ii.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

One Word More. xii.