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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Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus. The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.— OVID — Fasti. IV. 311.
Non soles respicere te, cum dicas injuste alteri? Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?— PLAUTUS — Pseudolus. II. 2. 18.
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