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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Enough
 
Enough to press a royal merchant down.
        Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. (The Duke of Venice.)
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Enough to weigh a nation down.
        Churchill.—The Duellist, Book I. Line 52.
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Enough, and more than enough.
        Dr. Parr.—In his Spital Sermon; and Horace to his patron Mæcenas.
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We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to store;
Enough requires too much; too much craves more.
        Quarles.—Book II., No. II. Line 7. (Epigrams.)
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