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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 Dionysius

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

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.— filed under Flowers-Lily
I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower, To place me on that breast of snow Where I should bloom a wintry flower— filed under Flowers-Rose
Better late than never.— filed under Proverbs
503 DIDEROT, DENIS, philosopher and writer .... FRANCE, 1713-1784 776 DILLON, WENTWORTH, poet and translator... Ireland, 1633-1684 10 124 207 255 260 274 367 389 422 427 428 479 490 527 573 632 664 670 671 DINNIES, ANNA PEYRE, poet. 224 UNITED STATES, 1805-1886 DIOGENES, LAERTIUS, author, GREECE, alive during 211-235 62 71 325 483 501 583 649 664 668 DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, rhetorician and historian, HALICARNASSUS about B.C. 7 496— filed under Day, Richard Edwin
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