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Brown, Marshall. (1905). Wit and humor of well-known quotations, p. 121; excerpt, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" ... [and it] "is the only place of which we ever heard that is. Generally paving is done with the intention of cheating the city."—Boston Post.
White, William. (1897). Notes and queries, Vol. 95, p. 499.
Amer, Christine. (1997). The American Heritage dictionary of idioms, p. 542.
Pell, Robert Conger. (1857). Milledulcia: a thousand pleasant things selected from "Notes and queries", pp. 89-90; excerpt, "The last editor, Croker, adds :—Johnson's phrase has become so proverbial, that it may seem rather late to ask what it means—why 'paved'? "
Whyte-Melville, George John. (1857). The Interpreter: a Tale of the War, Vol. 1, p. 100.
Lewis , C. S. (1942). "Letter #12, The Danger of the Slippery Slope to Nothingness," The Screwtape Letters, p. 61.