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Webster's New Explorer Dictionary of Quotations

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Contains over four thousand quotations by a wide range of people from throughout history, arranged alphabetically in more than four hundred categories, such as ability, drinking, haste, negotiation, and simplicity, and including editorial notes and an author index.

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Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 082 — Computer science, information & general works Anthologies and Quotations General collections in English
LCC: PN6081 .W366 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Quotations English

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Published: 2000
Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 082
LCC: PN6081 .W366

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