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The Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsThe seventh edition of this classic was published in September 2009, edited by Elizabeth Knowles. It is thicker than ever since the dictionary keeps up with what is being quoted in print and online and maintains its wonderful fund of quotations. This edition has almost a thousand new quotations.

This edition is also more beautiful than ever. The cover alone is enough to tempt a potential buyer – a far cry from the plain powder-blue with white writing of our old 1953 second edition.

All the old favourites are there; Mallory’s renowned response to the question why he wanted to climb Everest, ‘Because it’s there’, Mark Twain’s, ‘The report of my death was an exaggeration’ and  Barack Obama has even made his appearance with, ‘The arc of history is long but it bends towards justice’.

Browsing the book becomes compulsive and you are left with Oscar Wilde’s famous thought, ‘I wish I had said that’, to which of course Whistler replied, You will, Oscar, you will.’

Posted by :: Shirley Curran on 1 February 2010 at 8:00 | permalink
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