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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7 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Quackery

Quackery: From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile…

Quality

Quality: Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Quarreling

Quarreling: Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Quotation

Quotation: The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Questions

Questions: Denn wenn sich Jemand versteckt erklärt, so ist Nichts unhöflicher als eine nene Frage. For when any one explains himself…

Quoted Authors

Quoted Authors: Nativity, Dates of Birth and Death, and Further Characterization. NOTE. The first line of figures gives year of birth, the…

Quis Of

Quis Of: GRAINGER, JAMES, poet and physician, SCOTLAND, about 1723-1767 266 295 GRANT, MRS. ANNE, author, SCOTLAND, 1755-1838 144 GRANT…

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