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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8631
AUTHOR:Publius Syrus (42 B.C.)
QUOTATION:Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Maxim 358.
 
Note 1.
The sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast.
William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3. [back]
 

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