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

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Bidpai. (continued)
 
8420
    Whoever … prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
          Ibid.
8421
    There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
          A Religious Doctor. Fable vi.
8422
    There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
          The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
8423
    He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. 1
          The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
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    Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
          Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.
8425
    That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. 2
          The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.
 
Hesiod. (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.)
 
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    We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
          The Theogony. Line 27.
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    On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 3 and from his lips drop gentle words.
          The Theogony. Line 82.
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    Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. 4
          The Theogony. Line 754.
 
Note 1.
See Butler, Quotation 53. [back]
Note 2.
See Cibber, Quotation 13. [back]
Note 3.
See Coleridge, Quotation 34. [back]
Note 4.
See Shelley, Quotation 26. [back]