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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1 subject in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Youth

Youth: Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.

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