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.

Oaths

22 quotations

Obedience

13 quotations

Oblivion

2 quotations

Obscurity

24 quotations

Observation

17 quotations

Occupations-Acting

26 quotations

Occupations-Agriculture

10 quotations

Occupations-Alchemy

86 quotations

Occupations-Authorship

54 quotations

Occupations-Cabinet-Making

19 quotations

Occupations-Culinary

12 quotations

Occupations-Hatters

22 quotations

October

1 quotation

Occupations-Jeweler

31 quotations

Occupations-Journalism

11 quotations

Occupations-Law

85 quotations

Occupations-Medicine

25 quotations

Ovid

7 quotations

Occupations-Mercantile

14 quotations

Occupations-Military

41 quotations

Occupations-Navigation

48 quotations

Occupations-Painting

34 quotations

Occupations-Post

40 quotations

Occupations-Preaching

30 quotations

Occupations-Printing

9 quotations

Occupations-Shoemaking

33 quotations

Occupations-Tailoring

28 quotations

Occupations-Teaching

8 quotations

Occupations-Tobacconists

26 quotations

Occupations-Tonsorial

9 quotations

Occupations-Undertakers

11 quotations

Ocean

34 quotations

Opinion

29 quotations

Opportunity

8 quotations

Oratory

24 quotations

Oracle

2 quotations

Order

11 quotations

Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl Of

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