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

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Democracy and Addresses.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Democracy and Addresses.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Garfield.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Garfield.

It ["The Ancient Mariner">[ is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

Coleridge.