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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed."
Ancient and Modern Learning.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672."
Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
On Sir William Temple. 1838.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain