The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... quotations from W. C. Fields ; His Follies and For- tunes by Robert Lewis Taylor , Copyright 1949 by Robert Lewis Taylor . Duell , Sloan & Pearce , Inc. for lines from America Was Promises by Archibald Mac- Leish and quotations from ...
... quotations from W. C. Fields ; His Follies and For- tunes by Robert Lewis Taylor , Copyright 1949 by Robert Lewis Taylor . Duell , Sloan & Pearce , Inc. for lines from America Was Promises by Archibald Mac- Leish and quotations from ...
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... quotations from Fables for Our Time , Copyright 1939 , 1940 by James Thurber , Harper & Brothers , and for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and cartoon captions from The New Yorker . University of Chicago Press for quotations from ...
... quotations from Fables for Our Time , Copyright 1939 , 1940 by James Thurber , Harper & Brothers , and for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and cartoon captions from The New Yorker . University of Chicago Press for quotations from ...
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... quotation is apt to be a good one , and therefore quite worthy of repetition . It will be a long time before constant usage blunts the edge of Thoreau's remark about circumstantial evidence and the trout in the milk . What kinds of ...
... quotation is apt to be a good one , and therefore quite worthy of repetition . It will be a long time before constant usage blunts the edge of Thoreau's remark about circumstantial evidence and the trout in the milk . What kinds of ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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