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3 Quotes for 'Samuel Foote' in the Database.
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Samuel Foote Quotes
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Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: The Author (act II, sc. 1, l. 375)
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Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd,
And mother Eve the humble distaff held,
Who then his pedigree presumed to trace,
Or challenged the prerogative of place?
[Lat., Primus Adam duro cum vertet arva ligone,
Pensaque de vili deceret Eva colo:
Ecquis in hoc poterat vir nobilis orbe videri?
Et modo quisquam alios ante locandue erir?
Topic: Ancestry
Source: The Author (act II, sc. 1, l. 375)
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He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!
Topic: Monuments
Source: Mayor of Garratt (act I, sc. I)
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