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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36 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

William, Earl of Stirling

7 quotations

War

137 quotations

Water

14 quotations

Weakness

18 quotations

Wealth

28 quotations

Weeds

3 quotations

Welcome

18 quotations

Wickedness

6 quotations

Wife

31 quotations

Will

8 quotations

Wind

40 quotations

Wine and Spirits

39 quotations

Wisdom

58 quotations

Wishes

8 quotations

Wit

55 quotations

Woman

171 quotations

Wonders

2 quotations

Wooing

52 quotations

Words

63 quotations

Work

82 quotations

Worship

21 quotations

Worth

28 quotations

Wounds

4 quotations

Wrongs

17 quotations

Want

1 quotation

Watchfulness

1 quotation

Wine

9 quotations

Writing

3 quotations

Ward

Walker, William

Wallace, John Aikman

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

1 quotation

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley

Whitman, Sarah Helen Power

Wilde, George James De

Wrother, Miss

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