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

All quiet along the Potomac. Proverbial in 1861-62. Supposed to have originated with GEN. MCCLELLAN.— filed under Proverbs
Magazine. Winchester, Eng. 1828. All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.— filed under Occupations-Military
PEN (THE). Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee.— filed under Peace
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