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

2144 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2144
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7.
 
Note 1.
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.—Samuel Johnson: Piazzi, 52. [back]