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

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He serves his party best who serves the country best.[665:1]

Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.

Footnotes

[665:1] See Pope, page [339].

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[[666]]

LEONARD HEATH.

On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows

Assail the stern rock, and the loud tempests rave,

The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows,