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

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Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 30. (816.)

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.[705:3]

Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 8, 30. (953.)

Footnotes

[702:1] Bonn's Classical Library.

[702:2] See Edwards, page [21].

[702:3] Equivalent to our sayings, "Charity begins at home;" "Take care of Number One."

[702:4] See Wotton, page [174].

[703:1]

If it were now to die,