Snuffbox Quotes
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
Alexander Pope— 1714 The Rape of the Lock, canto 4, l.123-4.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. 2
tom brown— Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt", Sorbienne (1610–1670); also used in Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison.
