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

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Letters. Book viii. Letter ix. 3.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

Letters. Book viii. Letter xx. 1.

His only fault is that he has no fault.[748:6]

Letters. Book ix. Letter xxvi. 1.

Footnotes

[748:1] Book vi. Letter xvi. contains the description of the eruption of Vesuvius, a. d. 79, as witnessed by Pliny the Elder.

[748:2] This comes to inform you that I am in a perfect state of health, hoping you are in the same. Ay, that 's the old beginning.—Colman: The Heir at Law, act iii. sc. 2.

[748:3] See Goldsmith, page [402].

[748:4] "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. iii.