Quotations for All Occasions
- ISBN-10
- 0231112912
- ISBN-13
- 9780231112918
- Category
- Quotations, American
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
Description
A collection of quotes for every conceivable moment and passage in life includes words of wisdom by Plato, John Donne, Woody Allen, Betty Ford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Martina Navartilova, Holden Caulfield, Susan Sontag, and many others. Original. (Reference)
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