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Xvii: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.— BURTON — Quoted in Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. 2.

Memb. 5. Subsec. 5. Danger will wink on opportunity.— MILTON — Comus. L. 401.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. III. L. 172.

He that would not when he might, He shall not when he wolda.— THOS. PERCY — Reliques. The Baffled

Knight. A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 471.