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Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths
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An absolute joy.
Mardy Grothe's "Viva La Repartee" is a carefully edited collection of stories, excerpts, salient snippets that all fall under the heading of "Gee, I wish I'd said that..." An absolute joy from the first page (Winston Churchill's rejoinder to Lady Astor) to the the last page (Mae West's caustic aside in the film Myra Breck... »
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The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When
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This book does exactly what the title says it does. All those quotes you use from time to time and never know the source are now a thing of the past. I wrote a book once called "The First Casualty", taken from the quote "The first casualty when war comes is truth." I looked it up in this book and there it all was--who said it, where and when and an ass... »
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A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-ExupA ry
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This is an extremely short read. It took me 10 minutes, and I am a slow reader. The quotes have been pulled from Exupery's seven works. I am not crazy about Exupery's storytelling such as The Little Prince, but I can tell that he was a deep and caring thinker. Every now and then one of his observations is so artistically succinct and beautifully re... »
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The Bible According to Mark Twain
Its facinating how religious fanatics blindly believe every fairytale putforth in a fiction book written by early man with one hell of an imagination. Eve... »
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Think on These Things
This is the first thing I read of Cayce. It is all excerpts straight from the readings. There are no interpretations, conjecture or filtering through th... »
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Mankind's Greatest Quotes
No issues with this book except it's pretty short. I was hoping there would be a lot more quotes in them. It's only got less than 10 quotes per page.... »
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