Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
Friendship
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.