"'Twas not an Age ago since most of our Books were nothing but Collections of Latin Quotations; there was not above a line or two of French in a Page."
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January 1, 1970

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Jean de La Bruyère, The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688), Chapter XV. Of the Pulpit; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653-54.