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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)

by: John Bartlett

Amazon Price: $18.99 (as of 02/16/2012)

This canonical reference work, originally published in 1855, soldiers on, seeking out memorable quotations in the midst of these dark ages of rhetoric. Since the last edition in 1992 bon mots from pop cultural phenomena have been added: Jerry Seinfeld, Larry Clark, J. K. Rowling. Some of these are perhaps more irritating ("Show me the money!") or laughable attempts to evade rather than achieve clear expression ("It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is") than insightful.