Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Transcriber's Notes

1. Corrections which have been made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrected text. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.

2. Formatting of punctuation has been standardised, including the addition of trailing periods in the text and the index and the addition of commas preceding the page numbers in the index.

3. Formatting of footnotes with respect to small caps and punctuation has been standardised.

4. This text has numerous quirks:

• the index is sometimes not in alphabetical order, in particular the plural of a headword often immediately follows the singular of a headword.
• quotations are sometimes not in numerical line number order
• index entries often contain full words, where the original quote contains contractions
• index entries often contain duplicate head words
• index entries often do not replicate the punctuation or exact spelling of the original quotation.

5. Use of a regular expression based search facility for research within this text is recommended. Please take a moment to admire the people who compiled a 300 page index without the use of automated word processing.