| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Famine |
| | | Famine ends famine. Ben Jonson. | 1 |
| | This famine has a sharp and meagre face; |
| Tis death in an undress of skin and bone, |
| Where age and youth, their landmark, taen away, |
| Look all one common sorrow. |
Dryden. | 2 | | |
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