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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO
THEIR SOURCE

PASSAGES AND PHRASES
IN COMMON USE.

By JOHN BARTLETT.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread
that binds them is mine own.—Montaigne.

FIFTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1870.