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 L. E. Landon

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

Of all the months that fill the year, Give April's month to me, For earth and sky are then so filled With sweet variety. The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue, As beautiful as woman's blush, As evanescent too.— filed under Flowers-Apple Blossoms
A honeysuckle link'd Around, with its red tendrils and pink flowers.— filed under Flowers-Honeysuckle
A brier rose, whose buds Yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.— filed under Flowers-Rosemary
Hill. Violets!-deep-blue violets! April's loveliest coronets! There are no flowers grow in the vale, Kiss'd by the dew, woo'd by the gale,- None by the dew of the twilight wet, So sweet as the deep-blue violet.— filed under Flowers-Violet
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.— filed under Society
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