A garland of quotations CXXII

Skullastic Book Fair this Sunday! June 1, 12–5, American Legion Post 16, Shelton CT! Free admission! Bring your friends!

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

A Soldier was bragging before Julius Cæsar, of the Wounds he received in his Face; Cæsar, knowing him to be a Coward, told him, he had best take heed, the next Time he ran away, how he look’d back.
Joe Miller’s Jests or, The Wits Vade-Mecum (1739).

The best physic against the plague is to run away from it.
•Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Written by a ...

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