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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 258 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become a spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C. Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right...
Series
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (371 pages)
Language
English
Description
"A compendium of human wisdom culled from the world's celebrated--and anonymous --minds, from Confucius and Shakespeare to Maya Angelou and Woody Allen."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sherry Appel asked hundreds of women to recall the most memorable and valuable words their mothers had told them, there came an outpouring of things practical and indispensable, some familiar and many surprising.
From Mother to Daughter celebrates the special relationship between mothers and daughters and captures the wisdom and common sense that comes from many lifetimes of experience. It is a gift that no one can give without remembering something...
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1855 as a small booklet containing a mere 258 pages of quotes by 169 authors, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for the sixteenth edition by noted Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. Bartlett's gives the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, from the inspirational to the downright funny. In addition to John Bartlett's original criterion...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1136 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity.
18) Heirlooms
Author
Publisher
Harper and Row
Pub. Date
c1967
Physical Desc
319 p. : front., ill.
Language
English
19) Respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service
Publisher
Library of Congress
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
xxvi, 520 p. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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