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Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.
1922.
Impatience
Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
Homer
Odyssey.
Bk. 20. L. 381. Popes trans.
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I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
Nor long summer bide so late;
And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
For some things are ill to wait.
Jean Ingelow
Song of Seven. Seven Times Two.
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I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours.
Henry IV
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Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 117.
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