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Old 09-01-2000, 08:07 AM
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Can anyone recommend a good source (or sources) for quotations? I'm aware of Bartlett's and several on the Internet, but I would like to find a source/sources that's fairly large and comprehensive - those that include less well known and obscure quotes, for example.
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Old 09-01-2000, 09:33 AM
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http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html

the best i've found so far...
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Old 09-01-2000, 11:44 AM
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The 1919 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and the 1988 edition of Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations are both online and both searchable. See http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

I have had good luck using text searches with search engines to track down the source of quotations that I know the exact wording of (at least in part).
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