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

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If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Balaustion's Adventure.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,

Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,—

As, God be thanked! I do not.

The Inn Album. iv.

Have you found your life distasteful?

My life did, and does, smack sweet.

Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?

Mine I saved and hold complete.