John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Nation of shopkeepers. |
| From an oration purporting to have been delivered by Samuel Adams at the State House in Philadelphia, Aug. 1, 1776. (Philadelphia, printed; London, reprinted for E. Johnson, No. 4 Ludgate Hill, 1776.) W. V. Wells, in his Life of Adams, says: “No such American edition has ever been seen, but at least four copies are known of the London issue. A German translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given.” To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.—Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations, vol. ii. book iv. chap. vii. part 3. (1775.) And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.—Tucker (Dean of Gloucester): Tract. (1766.) Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers.—Bertrand Barère. (June 11, 1794.) |
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| New departure. |
| This new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and this new departure taken, which leads into the bottomless gulf of civil pensions and family gratuities.—T. H. Benton: Speech in the U. S. Senate against a grant to President Harrison’s widow, April, 1841. |
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| Nothing succeeds like success. |
| (Rien ne réussit comme le succès.—Dumas: Ange Pitou, vol. i. p 72, 1854.) A French proverb. |
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| Orthodoxy is my doxy; Heterodoxy is another man’s doxy. |
| “I have heard frequent use,” said the late Lord Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws, “of the words ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘heterodoxy;’ but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely what they mean.” “Orthodoxy, my Lord,” said Bishop Walburton, in a whisper,—“orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.”—Priestley: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 572. |
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| Paradise of fools; Fool’s paradise. |
| The earliest instance of this expression is found in William Bullein’s “Dialogue,” p. 28 (1573). It is used by Shakespeare, Middleton, Milton, Pope, Fielding, Crabbe, and others. |
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| Paying through the nose. |
| Grimm says that Odin had a poll-tax which was called in Sweden a nose-tax; it was a penny per nose, or poll.—Deutsche Rechts Alterthümer. |