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

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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,

And falls on the other.

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

I have bought

Golden opinions from all sorts of people.

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"

Like the poor cat i' the adage.[118:1]

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

I dare do all that may become a man;