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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| 1. A pen that can write, I hope? 2. It can write and spell baith, in right hands. Scott.—Redgauntlet, Chap. XII. | 1 |
| With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey-goose quill; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still. Gill. | 2 |
| [This man wrote a Biblical Commentary, which Sir Walter Scott thinks occupies between five and six hundred printed quarto pages, and has this quatrain at the end of the volume. See note D to the Fortunes of Nigel.] | 3 |
| Oh! Nature’s noblest gift—my grey-goose quill: Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. Byron.—English Bards, Line 6. | 4 |
| I’ll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword. Montrose.—A Song, My Dear and only Love. | 5 |
| Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen. Bulwer Lytton.—Richelieu, Act II. Scene 2. | 6 |
| The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer Lytton.—Richelieu, Act II. Scene 2. | 7 |
| Those oafs should be restrain’d during their lives From pen and ink, as madmen are from knives. Dryden’s Troilus and Cress. Epi. Line 8 from bottom. | 8 |
| No other use of paper thou should’st make Than carrying loads and reams upon thy back: Carry vast burdens till thy shoulders shrink, But curst be he that gives thee pen and ink: Such dangerous weapons should be kept from fools, As nurses from their children keep edg’d tools. Dorset.—To Ed. Howard on his Plays. | 9 |
| Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think. Prior.—To a Person who wrote ill. | 10 |
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