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Sometimes a good quote will do, such as "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished" (Zsa Zsa Gabor). Or perhaps "Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures" (Samuel Johnson). Other times, a proverb seems just right, such as ""wedlock is a padlock" or "marriages are made in heaven" or "marry in haste, repent at leisure." Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of...
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When you want to launch a new chapter, win a fight, spice a speech, or merely wax philosophical before the fire, there's nothing like an apt quotation. Elizabeth Knowles has compiled more than 10,000 pithy phrases covering more than 350 themes, from "Absence" and "Achievement" to "Writing" and "Youth." Flip through the pages and there's Sydney Smith saying, "I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland"; Tom...
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Elizabeth Knowles is Managing Editor of the Quotation dictionaries group at Oxford University Press.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0198662297
- ISBN 13 9780198662297
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages712
- EditorKnowles Elizabeth
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