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

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To prey at fortune.

Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

I am declined

Into the vale of years.

Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

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O curse of marriage,

That we can call these delicate creatures ours,

And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,

And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,