BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE
TO THEIR SOURCES

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, Essays, Boiik iii. eh. la.

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