JUSTIN WINSOR,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS:

BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO

THEIR SOURCE

PASSAGES AND PHRASES

IN COMMON USE.

BY JOHN BARTLETT.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread
that binds them is mine own. - MONTAIGNE.

FIFTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

JOHN BAR-TLETT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

TO

REZIN A. WIGHT, ESQ.