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

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[700:1] See Chaucer, page [6].

[700:2] See Shakespeare, page [141].

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.—Montaigne: Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.

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DIONYSIUS THE ELDER.  430-367 b. c.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Frag. 6.

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PLAUTUS.  254(?)-184 b. c.

(Translated by Henry Thomas Riley, B. A., with a few variations. The references are to the text of Ritschl's second edition.[700:3])