John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| George Barlow. (1847– ?) |
| 8031 |
| What men have done can still be done And shall be done to-day. |
| The Song of Abu Klea. |
| Joel Chandler Harris. (1848–1908) |
| 8032 |
| Brer Fox, he lay low. |
| Legends of the old Plantation. |
| 8033 |
| Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens. |
| Legends of the old Plantation. |
| 8034 |
| Lazy fokes’s stummucks don’t git tired. |
| Plantation Proverbs. |
| 8035 |
| Jay-bird don’t rob his own nes’. |
| Plantation Proverbs. |
| 8036 |
| Licker talks mighty loud w’en it gits loose from de jug. |
| Plantation Proverbs. |
| 8037 |
| Hungry rooster don’t cackle w’en he fine a wum. |
| Plantation Proverbs. |
| 8038 |
| Youk’n hide de fier, but w’at you gwine do wid de smoke? |
| Plantation Proverbs. |
| Arthur James, Earl of Balfour. (1848–1930) |
| 8039 |
| The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. |
| The Foundations of Belief. |
| William Ernest Henley. (1849–1903) |
| 8040 |
| Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. |
| To R. T. H. B. |