Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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

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Michelle Obama’s ‘When they go low, we go high’; Tarana Burke’s ‘Me Too’; Michael Gove’s notorious ‘People in this country have had enough of experts.’ John Bartlett's dictionary of quotations has been providing bon mots for every occasion since it was first published in 1855 and this revised edition adds more than 3,500 modern aphorisms to time-honoured sayings from Confucius, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the King James Bible. Off-mint.

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