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Synopsis
A comprehensive list of quotations and aphorisms along with historical and biographical reference information, now expanded in a trade paper edition.
This trade paper edition of Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations expands the success of our mass market edition with nearly triple the number of entries, plus a reference to the source of each quotation and biographical information on the author.
More than 7,000 quotes, quips, and pithy remarks by the greatest thinkers and speakers throughout the ages, from Shakespeare to Reagan.
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Review
A handy bon mot is a beautiful thing. For launching a speech, wrapping up a term paper, concluding an argument, or merely waxing sophisticated in front of those you'd like to impress, there's nothing like a well-turned phrase with the authoritative stamp of having been uttered originally by someone else. Webster's quips and epigrams are tidily arranged in more than 200 categories--everything from "Acting" ("Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is." --Spencer Tracy) to "Youth" ("Youth is wasted on the young." --George Bernard Shaw). It's a compact book, light enough to browse one-handed, small enough to fit in a purse, and full of adages, anecdotes, apothegms, and axioms--more than 2,500 in all, and cross-referenced by topic and author--that are absorbing, browsable, and abundantly quotable. --Stephanie Gold
From the Publisher
Complete cross-referenced index for topics and sources.
Key source information with brief author biography and birth and death years.
Trade paperback format for quality and value.
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- PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
- ISBN 10 0764564021
- ISBN 13 9780764564024
- BindingPaperback
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