CD-ROM Assembles Familiar Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Expanded
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Based upon the 160–;year–;old book of the same name, the CD–;ROM includes all 22,000 text quotations from the sixteenth edition (1993), plus hundreds of graphs, audio clips, video segments and movie stills.
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This article originally appeared in the 02/01/1996 issue of THE Journal.