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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| He knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysic wit can fly. Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto 1. Line 149. | 1 |
| Let ev’ry man enjoy his whim; What’s he to me, or I to him? Churchill.—The Ghost, Book IV. | 2 |
| What will Mrs. Grundy say? Morton.—Speed the Plough, Act I. Scene 1. | 3 |
| What’s done cannot be undone. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 1. (Lady Macbeth walking and talking in her sleep.) | 4 |
| Things without all remedy Should be without regard; what’s done is done. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2. (Lady Macbeth to her husband.) | 5 |
| What’s done cannot be now amended. Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act IV. Scene 4. (To Queen Elizabeth.) | 6 |
| An evil done is past all cure. Homer.—The Iliad, Book IX, Line 294. (Earl Derby.) | 7 |
| What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba? Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (After his interview with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.) | 8 |
| What’s there in a name; Propensity to vice in both the same. Churchill.—The Farewell. | 9 |
| What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Juliet to Romeo.) | 10 |
| Who hath not own’d with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name? Campbell.—The Pleasures of Hope, Part II. | 11 |
| She was—but words would fail to tell thee what: Think what a woman should be, and she was that. Anonymous. | 12 |
| But wouldst thou know what’s heav’n? I’ll tell thee what: Think what thou canst not think, and Heaven is that. Quarles.—Book V. Epig. XIV. | 13 |
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