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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| Were I like thee, I’d throw myself away. Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 3. (Timon to Apemantus.) | 1 |
| It was not my fault, Major Bridgenorth; How could I help it? like will to like— The boy would come—The girl would see him. Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XIV. | 2 |
| Like will to like; each creature loves his kind, Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, 293. | 3 |
| There’s not a man among them but must please, Since they are like each other as are peas. Swift.—Horace, Book I. Epi. 5. | 4 |
| As like as milk is to milk. Riley.—Plautus, The Bacchides, Act I. Scene 2. | 5 |
| As cherry is to cherry. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act V. Scene 1. (Lady to King Henry.) | 6 |
| Almost as like as eggs. Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Leontes to Mamillius.) | 7 |
| F—— loves the senate, Hockleyhole his brother, Like in all else as one egg to another. Pope.—Satire to Fortescue, Book I. Line 49. | 8 |
| Like Niobe, all tears. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (After his interview with the King, Queen, and Lords.) | 9 |
| No more like my father Than I to Hercules. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (The same Soliloquy.) | 10 |
| Very like a whale. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Polonius.) | 11 |
| But simpering, mild, and innocent, As angels on a monument. Whitehead.—Variety. | 12 |
| All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like. Ecclesiasticus.—Chap. xiii. Ver. 16. | 13 |
| The birds will resort unto their like. Ecclesiasticus.—Chap. xxvii. Ver. 9. | 14 |
| Cicada is dear to cicada, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks. Banks’ Theocritus.—Idyll IX. Page 52. | 15 |
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