Indexed in the public record
“To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 286ccadf1206704df3738abd5d601f58b5373879d507c551974b766035f4578c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Such and so various are the tastes of men.”
Mark Akenside
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.”
Publius Syrus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Variety 's the very spice of life.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings; Nor, as…”
Richard Gifford
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.”
Terence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though…”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.