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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5 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Kindness

Kindness: Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Kisses

Kisses: Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its…

Knavery

Knavery: Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is-more knave than fool.

Knowledge

Knowledge: Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Kelly, Thomas

Kelly, Thomas: 165 KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE, actress and writer..... .....ENGLAND, 1811-1893 2 348 546 620 657 KEMBLE, JOHN P., tragedian…

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