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References Sources: Quotations


Oxford Reference Online: Quotations
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905.  However, most of Bartlett’s original work was left intact, the new editor choosing more to supplement than revise . . . ."

Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotations: 1950-1988
"Comprising over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources, . . . ."

Yahoo! List of Quotation Sources



Other useful print sources in the library's reference collection:


Bartlett's  Familiar Quotations

New York Public Library Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Stevenson's  Home Book of Quotations

Search the subject, "Quotations, English," in the library catalog.

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