FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS FROM UNFAMILIAR SOURCES.
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BY A STUDENT.
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Many of our readers have undoubtedly been asked during the past month for information touching the whereabouts of some trite quotation, the locality of which the whole neighborhood has not been able accurately to decide. We have often thought it would be a commendable service if some industrious student would make a complete collection of the every day sayings, and print them side by side with the author’s names. As no one, however, has seen fit to pioneer in the attempt, we here make a beginning, confident that the plan is worthy to be carried out more fully. At some future period, if no one else seems willing to continue the undertaking, we hope to find leisure and opportunity for other specimens in “Graham.” Meantime, here are a few of the more common lines in “everybody’s mouth.”
No line which dying he could wish to blot.
It stands thus in the original:
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which dying he could wish to blot.