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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Certis rebus certa signa præcurrunt. Certain signs precede certain events.— CICERO — De Divinatione. I. 52.
Ex parvis sæpe magnarum momenta rerum pendent. Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.— LIVY — Annales. XXVII. 9.
In tantâ inconstantiâ turbâque rerum nihil nisi quod preteriit certum est. In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past.— SENECA — De Consolatione ad Marciam.

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