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

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Of Garrulity.

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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.

Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action."

Lives of the Ten Orators.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.