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Familiarity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.— THOMAS HEYWOOD — Hierarchie of the

Blessed Angells. And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.— Shakespeare — Sonnet CII.

Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. St. 38.

And friend received with thumps upon the back.— YOUNG — Love of Fame. Satire I.

Quod crebro videt non miratur, etiamsi cur fiat nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id si evenerit, ostentum esse censet. A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.— CICERO — De Divinatione. II. 22.