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  • Bartleby Library Guides to Quotations
  • Dictionary of Quotations

    This website focuses on more recent quotes. It also has a search function, and a comprehensive table of contents.

  • Famous Quotations Network
  • Quotations Page

    This site claims to be the "oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994." They currently have over 24,000 quotations online from over 2,700 authors, and more are added daily.

  • Quoteland.com

    Literary, humorous, and random quotations, plus quotations by topic.

  • Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

    10,000 notable quotations from 4,000 sources covering the years 1950 to 1988. Browse subject and author indexes to find quotations with full citations.

  • The Quotations Page

    The oldest quotation site on the Web, The Quotations Page offers over 25,000 quotations, an author and subject index, as well as a number of different features, including: a search function, a "word of the day", and book reviews.

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