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 Simon Forman

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

A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Serving-men. 1598. A flea in one's ear.— filed under Proverbs
Better your room than your company.— filed under Proverbs
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