- English Quotations, Quotations, Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic
This reader-friendly volume contains more than 12,000 famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author. It is unique in its focus on American quotations and its thorough coverage of items not only from literary and historical sources but also from popular culture, sports, computers, politics, law and the social sciences.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Fred R. Shapiro
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 1067
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300107982
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