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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Actions
 
Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver’s issue, as by prince’s son.
        Dryden.—Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. Line 638.
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Actions of the last age, are like almanacs of the last year.
        Denham.—The Sophy.
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His actions speak much stronger than my pen.
        Churchill.—The Candidate, Line 106. (Of John Wilkes.)
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