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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Bishop John Earle

His breast is like a gentlewoman’s closet, which locks up every toy or trifle, or some bragging mountebank that makes every stinking thing a secret.

Great brains, like brightest glass, crack straight; those of stone or wood hold out, and fear not blows.

Like one drowning fastens upon anything that is next at hand.