Sir Thomas Overbury Quotes
2 Famous Quotes by Sir Thomas Overbury
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is
under ground.
Ancestry
Quotes, by Sir Thomas Overbury , Source: Characters
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She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with
pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry
wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of
fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.
Songs
Quotes, by Sir Thomas Overbury , Source: A Fair and Happy Milkmaid
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