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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

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5.0

This is another tome I would scarcely leave home without (not if I was going to be gone for more than forty-nine hours, at least). I had the library edition checked out as often as they would let me have it when I was teenager, and my sole reason for joining the Book-of-the-Month Club was to get my hands on my very own (and much newer) copy. In college I would sit up at night and page through, looking for the next day's quote, which I would then calligraphy onto an index card or other scrap of paper and post on my dorm room door. This has been, and will remain, one of four or five reference works that I absolutely have to have within easy reach whenever I sit down to work. Absolutely worth the investment to add this to your collection.
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