286 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

His Nets in Many Streams

I CAST my nets in many streams
To catch the silver fish of dreams.

Karle Wilson Baker

Alas Poor Brother

Poos, Cleon out of envy died,
His brother thief to see
Nailed near him to be crucified

Upon a higher tree.
Translated by Francis Hodgson from the Greek Lucilius

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Ask Your Purse

SK your purse what you should buy.
German Proverb

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A Beggar

BETTEE to die a beggar than to live one.
Old Proverb

Knowing All

o understand all is to forgive all.
French Saying

Two Men Looked Out
npwo men looked out through prison bars ;
JL The one saw mud, the other stars.

Writer unknown

The Poefs Shoe-strings
never brought in enough to buy shoe-strings*
JL Wordsworth

Keeping War Alive

o one ever has succeeded in keeping nations
at war except by lies. Salvador de Madariaga

The Valiant and the Virtuous

HER, name "was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to Lord Lucas of
Colchester, a noble familie, for all the brothers were valiant and
all the sisters virtuous. Epitaph on Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle

The Three Johns

npHERE are three Johns : the real John, known only to his Maker ;
JL John's ideal John, never the real one, and often very unlike him \
Thomas's ideal John, never the real John, nor John's John, but often
very unlike either. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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