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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

After

After me the deluge. Après moi le deluge.
Madame de Pompadour.—3 Notes and Queries, 397.

When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too.
From a Greek Tragedian. See Riley’s Dictionary, Classical Quot., 535.

After the war, aid.
Greek Proverb.

After death the doctor.
English Proverb. Riley.—Supra, 540. Geo. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.