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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Quotes by Andrew Lang

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading. A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.— filed under Books
Johnson. 1777. But he shaved with a shell when he chose, 'Twas the manner of primitive man.— filed under Occupations-Tobacconists
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