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Bartlett’s Words to Live By

Advice and Inspiration for Everyday Life

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By John Bartlett

Other Kurt Vonnegut

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For 150 years people have looked to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations for wisdom, inspiration, and pure fun. Here now is an elegant new collection of the best advice ever given, inspiring words from the world’s wisest men and women.

In 1855, Massachusetts bookseller John Bartlett self-published a small collection of prose and verse quotations. Since then, his volume has been continuously expanded and published to reflect the ever-changing cultural climate. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations remains the most authoritative, thought-provoking, and entertaining book of quotations available.

Readers will be delighted by insights that span almost five thousand years of human history, from ancient Egypt to the modern day, capturing the differences-and the similarities-of human thought over time.

With its thoughtful and entertaining selection of quotes, Bartlett’s Words to Live By is an enlightening gift for the graduate or the student of life and a splendid addition to the reference shelf.

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” -George Santayana

“Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.” -Ptahhotpe

From such varied sources as the Bible, Jane Austen, and John F. Kennedy, everyone is sure to find a gem.

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” -Muhammad Ali

“In my end is my beginning.” -Mary, Queen of Scots

“Bartlett City’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently.” -Sir Winston Churchill

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On Sale
May 4, 2006
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316016247

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John Bartlett

About the Author

Geoffrey O'Brien is the editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and author of fifteen books, most recently The Fall of the House of Walworth, and other works including Hardboiled America, Dream Time, The Phantom Empire, The Times Square Story, The Browser's Ecstasy, Castaways of the Image Planet, and Sonata for Jukebox. He has contributed frequently to The New York Review of Books, Artforum, Film Comment, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

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