C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Famine

Famine ends famine.

Ben Jonson.

This famine has a sharp and meagre face;
’Tis death in an undress of skin and bone,
Where age and youth, their landmark, ta’en away,
Look all one common sorrow.

Dryden.

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