"A Treasury of the Familiar" by Ralph L. Woods (editor)

No home library will ever be complete without a copy of A Treasury of the Familiar edited by Ralph L. Woods. A reader could spend hours just randomly flipping through the 710 pages and never fail to find a poem, story, letter, fable, Bible passage, or quotable quote that is, in fact, familiar on nearly any given page. From "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae to "The Good Samaritan" (Holy Bible, Luke 10:25-37) to "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson to a book review by Abraham Lincoln: "For those who like this kind of book, this is the kind of book they will like."From Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" speech to Rudyard Kipling's "If" to William Somerset Maugham's "Appointment in Samarra" to one of the best nuggets of wisdom ever printed, an Anonymous quote entitled Lost: "Lost, yesterday between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."Do you need to know the words to various bug