The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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38 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Easter

27 quotations

Eating

67 quotations

Echo

9 quotations

Economy

14 quotations

Education

22 quotations

Effects

2 quotations

Electricity

7 quotations

Eloquence

18 quotations

Emigration

2 quotations

Enemy

3 quotations

Enjoyment

24 quotations

Enthusiasm

6 quotations

Envy

34 quotations

Epigrams

138 quotations

Epitaph

23 quotations

Equality

17 quotations

Error

14 quotations

Eternity

23 quotations

Evening

22 quotations

Evil

23 quotations

Evolution

8 quotations

Example

26 quotations

Expectation

8 quotations

Experience

36 quotations

Expression

9 quotations

Extremes

10 quotations

Eyes

62 quotations

Ever

1 quotation

Equity

1 quotation

Events

3 quotations

Excess

2 quotations

Excitability

1 quotation

Excuse

1 quotation

Ennui

1 quotation

Edmondstoune

Evans

Ellerton, William

Evremond, Charles De Saint Denis

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