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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

James Howell

If one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest language.

The Frenchman is more generous in his proceedings, and not so full of scruples, reservations, and jealousies as the Spaniard, but deals more frankly.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, doth nothing but with good advice, if we make researches into the true reason of things.

They who prink and pamper the body, and neglect the soul, are like one who, having a nightingale in his house, is more fond of the cage than of the bird.

Forced terms of art did much puzzle sacred theology with distinctions, cavils, and quiddities; and so transformed her to a mere kind of sophistry and logomachy.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she was home-keeping.