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

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It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.

King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.

King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

Who lined himself with hope,

Eating the air on promise of supply.

King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

When we mean to build,