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

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Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle,[704:1] as the saying is.

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iii. Sc. 2, 9. (520.)

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 1, 53. (666.)

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 2, 8. (675.)

What now if the sky were to fall?[704:2]

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 3, 41. (719.)

Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.[704:3]

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 5, 48. (796.)