Sir Thomas Overbury Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2 Famous Quotes by Sir Thomas Overbury
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“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
Source: Characters
“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
Source: A Fair and Happy Milkmaid
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