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 John Home

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

My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.— filed under Name
Faint heart hath been a common phrase, faire ladie never wives. J. P. COLLIER'S Reprint of The Rocke of Regard (1576). P. 122. I'll woo her as the lion woos his brides.— filed under Wooing
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