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 Horace Walpole

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

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.— filed under Gain
Anything but history, for history must be false.— filed under History
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.— filed under Sorrow
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.— filed under Worship
Matthew Arnold's New Poems. They dropped into the yolk of an egg the milk that flows from the leaf of a young figtree, with which, instead of water, gum or gumdragant, they mixed their last layer of colours.— filed under Occupations-Painting
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