20 February 1872 February 19, 2012 Author: Staff Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opens. Famous Words of Inspiration...""It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." Sir Winston Churchill — Click here for more from Sir Winston Churchill Related posts: 10 September 1961 Categories: History Tags: 1872, 20 February