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

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The insane root

That takes the reason prisoner.

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's

In deepest consequence.

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

Two truths are told,

As happy prologues to the swelling act