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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3880
AUTHOR:Robert Blair (1699–1746)
QUOTATION:The good he scorn’d
Stalk’d off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between. 1
ATTRIBUTION:The Grave. Part ii. Line 586.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Norris, Quotation 1. [back]
 

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