[LIS-Forum] The Columbia World of Quotations

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ONLINE BOOKS: QUOTATIONS: DICTIONARY:
The Columbia World of Quotations

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
http://www.bartleby .com/66/

The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this
authoritative collection represent the research of 154
experts. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and
speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects.

QUOTATION: A book that is shut is but a block.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Fuller (1654â€"1734), British
physician. Gnomologia, no. 23 (1732).

QUOTATION: Men, forever tempted to lift the veil
of the futureâ€"with the aid of computers or horoscopes
or the intestines of sacrificial animalsâ€"have a worse
record to show in these “sciences” than in almost
any scientific endeavor.
ATTRIBUTION: Hannah Arendt (1906â€"1975), U.S.
philosopher and political theorist; born in Germany.
The Life of the Mind, vol. 2: Willing, ch. 14 (1978).

QUOTATION: My library was dukedom large enough.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564â€"1616),
British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest,
act 1, sc. 2, l. 109-10 (1623).

Also see:

Mark Twain quotations
http://www.twainquo tes.com/

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