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Language and
Literature
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At each of the above collections you
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marks, for example: "friends romans countrymen"
At
Encyclopaedia Britannica online,
see 'Notable
quotations' for over 4000 quotations. You can browse them by subject or by author
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Dictionary (OED). The OED uses 2.5 million quotations to illustrate different
meanings of individual English words and to show how the meanings of the words
change over the years
