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

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[705:7] See Gay, page [349].

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LUCRETIUS.  95-55 b. c.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.[706:1]

De Rerum Natura. i. 313.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.[706:2]

De Rerum Natura. iv. 637.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.[706:3]

De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133.