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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3533
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:By flatterers besieg’d,
And so obliging that he ne’er oblig’d;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, 1
And sit attentive to his own applause.
ATTRIBUTION:Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 207.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Quotation 248. [back]
 

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