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Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett
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Title: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Author: John Bartlett
Release Date: January 25, 2009 [EBook #27889]
Language: English
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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS:
A COLLECTION OF
PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS
TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN
ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE
BY JOHN BARTLETT.
"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
NINTH EDITION.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1905.
Copyright, 1875, 1882, 1891, 1903, BY JOHN BARTLETT.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
THIS EDITION IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR,
REZIN A. WIGHT.
PREFACE.
"Out of the old fieldes cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere," And out of the fresh woodes cometh al these new flowres here.
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