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

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They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.

Good wits jump;[791:2] a word to the wise is enough.

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.[791:3]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.[791:4]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xlii.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake;[791:5] and store 's no sore.[791:6]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.