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The Oxford dictionary of quotations
By Knowles, Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 978-0-19860-720-5
- Publisher
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2005, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
In one of his elegies, Rilke proclaimed, "Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart." In a short story, Anton Chekhov wrote, "If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable." This is but a sampling of the kinds of quotations one finds in this ne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
