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

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Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.

Modest doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches

To the bottom of the worst.

Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.

The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance.

Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Welcome ever smiles,