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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35 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Idleness

10 quotations

Ignorance

34 quotations

Imagination

22 quotations

Immortality

36 quotations

Impatience

3 quotations

Impossibility

6 quotations

Independence

12 quotations

Inconstancy

5 quotations

Indifference

5 quotations

Influence

22 quotations

Ingratitude

20 quotations

Inheritance

2 quotations

Injustice

4 quotations

Innocence

8 quotations

Insanity

24 quotations

Insects-Bee

17 quotations

Insects-Flea

16 quotations

Insects-Katydid

7 quotations

Insects-Louse

7 quotations

Instruction

16 quotations

Instinct

8 quotations

Intellect

10 quotations

Intemperance

21 quotations

Invention

12 quotations

Investigation

3 quotations

Islands

3 quotations

Iii

64 quotations

Imitation

6 quotations

Inclination

2 quotations

Indolence

7 quotations

Injury

1 quotation

Inquisitiveness

2 quotations

Insult

5 quotations

Insolence

2 quotations

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