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John Bartlett

Born

in Plymouth, Massachusetts, The United States

June 14, 1820

Died

December 03, 1905

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American publisher and editor John Bartlett compiled Familiar Quotations in 1855 and a Shakespearean concordance in 1894.

From fathers of the Mayflower, the ship of the Pilgrims, he descended. A very bright boy, he read at three years of age in 1823 and finished the entire Bible before nine years of age in 1829. He finished school in 1836 and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and work for the university bookstore that served Harvard.
He owned the store before 1849. Stumped persons in the community knew to "ask John Bartlett," for trivia.

He began keeping a commonplace book to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed it first. From 169 authors, those 258 pages contained entries. From the Bible and from the works of the bard came one- ...more

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	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1855 — 181 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Shakespeare Quotations by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1889 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Words to Live By: Advice and Inspiration for Everyday Life by John Bartlett, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Foreword) 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Bible Quotations by John Bartlett, Bruce Feiler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Complete Concordance or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases and Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Supplement Concordance to the Poems 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Book of Business Quotations by John Bartlett (Editor), Barbara Ann Kipfer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Collection of Familiar Quotations with Complete Indices of Authors & Subjects 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A new and Complete Concordance, or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, With a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”
― John Bartlett

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]”
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“QUOTATION”
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