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

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Copyright, 1875, 1882, 1891, 1903,
By John Bartlett.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

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THIS EDITION
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO
THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR,

REZIN A. WIGHT.

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PREFACE.

"Out of the old fieldes cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere,"