Excerpt from The Book of Familiar Quotations: Being a Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms From the Works of the Best Authors The First Edition of the "Book of Familiar Quotations" was published in 1852, and was out of print in the space of a few months. The second edition was also rapidly exhausted. It is now reprinted in a more extended form, and it is hoped that its utility is increased in proportion to its enlargement. A comprehensive Index is appended, so that full facility for reference is afforded. The exact place in each author from whose works the extracts are made, is indicated (except where the work itself is so brief as to render this needless), so that the reader will be able, without loss of time, to make reference to the context, and thus the faithfulness of the Compiler can be easily tested. That a book of this sort was needed, is evinced by the numerous errors in quoting constantly made by orators on the platform and in the pulpit, as well as by persons in ordinary conversation, and by the press writers of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.