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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)

1285

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2.

1286

He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2.

1287

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock’d himself, and scorn’d his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2.

1288

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2.

1289

’T is a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost 1 round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.