John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Bidpai. |
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We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again. 1 |
Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i. |
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It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. 2 |
The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii. |
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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. 3 |
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. |
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Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets. |
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. |
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Men are used as they use others. |
The King who became Just. Fable ix. |
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What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. 4 |
The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv. |
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Guilty consciences always make people cowards. 5 |
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii. |
Note 1. And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.—Matthew vii. 2. [back] |
Note 2. See Heywood, Quotation 91. [back] |
Note 3. See Herrick, Quotation 17. [back] |
Note 4. See Heywood, Quotation 122. [back] |
Note 5. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 109. [back] |