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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37 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Labor

40 quotations

Language

27 quotations

Laughter

30 quotations

Learning

29 quotations

Leisure

15 quotations

Liberality

6 quotations

Liberty

30 quotations

Libraries

17 quotations

Life

208 quotations

Light

26 quotations

Linguists

12 quotations

Listening

7 quotations

Literature

10 quotations

Loss

6 quotations

Love

331 quotations

Loyalty

16 quotations

Luck

5 quotations

Luxury

17 quotations

Libanius

Longinus

4 quotations

Livy

2 quotations

Lxii

2 quotations

Lix

8 quotations

Lxxxiii

4 quotations

Law

8 quotations

Lying

22 quotations

Lxxiv

3 quotations

Lxxvi

2 quotations

Leibnitz

2 quotations

Louis Philippe

6 quotations

Latin

23 quotations

Land, Dr

Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wil

1 quotation

Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget De

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

1 quotation

Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus

Lytton, Lord Edward, Robert Bul

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