A

DICTIONARY OF THOUGHTS

BEING

A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations

FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN

BY

TRYON EDWARDS, D.D.

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY SUBJECTS

A GREAT THOUGHT IS A GREAT BOON, FOR WHICH GOD IS TO BE FIRST THANKED,
THEN HE WHO IS THE FIRST TO UTTER IT, and THEN, IN A LESSER, BUT STILL IN A
CONSIDERABLE DEGREE, THE MAN WHO IS THE FIRST TO QUOTE IT TO US.—Bovec

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