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Includes these titles: Familiar Quotations, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Similes, among many other similar titles.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by 
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by 
