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

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Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.

I think it a very happy accident.[792:2]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxii.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.[792:3]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii.

Rome was not built in a day.[792:4]

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.