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 William Habington

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

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.— filed under Country Life
Bayard Taylor's trans. As yourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.— filed under Royalty
The starres, bright sentinels of the skies.— filed under Stars
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