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Mercury Quotes

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

"Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood, p. 166, 1893.