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

Herbert Spencer

A good classic is as full of ancient myths, as that of a servant-girl of ghost stories.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of the disease; and some men’s lusts, like some agues, have not such returns as others.