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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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BUNYAN: _The Author's Way of Sending forth his
Second Part of the Pilgrim,_ Pt. ii.


=Falsity.=

As false
As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth;
As fox to lamb; as wolf to heifer's calf;
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son.
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SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.


=Fame.=

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.
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SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds:
On both his wings, one black, the other white,
Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
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MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 971.

What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath,
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