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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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.— MILTON — Hymn on Christ's Nativity. L. 173.
I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L.93.
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