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

Reform

’Tis the talent of our English nation,
Still to be plotting some new reformation.
Dryden.—Prol. to Sophonisba.

I’ll have no more beggars. Fools shall have wealth, and the learned shall live by his wits. I’ll have no more bankrupts.
Geo. Chapman.—The Widow’s Tears, Act I. Scene 1.