Familiar Quotations — Part 1 | Audiobook

🌐 Listen to books on our website: https://3ords.com 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g27889 ⏩ Next part:    • Familiar Quotations — Part 2 | Audiobook   📚 TOP-3 similar books:    • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ecce Homo | ...      • Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from ...      • Guy de Maupassant - Complete Original Shor...   📚 Familiar Quotations — Part 1 of 5 📖 Excerpt from the book: The small thin volume, the first to bear the title of this collection, after passing through eight editions, each enlarged, now culminates in its ninth,—and with it, closes its tentative life. This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to the present one:— "It is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new to another. Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language, and numberless curious and happy turns from orators and poets, have knocked at the door, and it was hard to deny them. But to admit these simply on their own merits, without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends, was aside from the purpose of this collection. Still, it has been thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness." With the many additions to the English writers, the present edition contains selections from the French, and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients. A few passages have been admitted without a claim to familiarity, but solely on the ground of coincidence of thought. [vi]I am under great obligations to M. H. Morgan, Ph. D., of Harvard University, for the translation of Marcus Aurelius, and for the translation and selections from the Greek tragic writers. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Daniel W. Wilder, of Kansas, for the quotations from Pilpay, with contributions from Diogenes Laertius, Montaigne, Burton, and Pope's Homer; to Dr. William J. Rolfe for quotations from Robert Browning; to Mr. James W. McIntyre for quotations from Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, and Tennyson. And I have incurred other obligations to friends for here a little and there a little. It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the great assistance I have received from Mr. A. W. Stevens, the accomplished reader of the University Press, as th ... 🏷 Tags: familiar quotations,audiobook,famous quotes,quotations,famous sayings,classic literature,wisdom,philosophy,english writers,french quotes,ancient wisdom,famous phrases,famous maxims,literature,audio books,speech quotes,poetry quotes,memorable quotes,book of quotes,classic quotes,timeless wisdom #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g27889 🌐 Website: https://3ords.com 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⏩ Next part:    • Familiar Quotations — Part 2 | Audiobook   ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: LibertyStartups@proton.me