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With more than 4,000 quotations from an enormous selection of sources, readers will find the Oxford Quick Reference Quotations both browsable and useful as a handy reference to look up who said what, where, and when. This new paperback is based on the text of The Little Oxford Dictionary ofQuotations, with new quotations taken from recent years to bring this collection fully up-to-date. There are 250 themes as wide-ranging as Fools and Foolishness, Inventors and Discoveries, Fame, Temptation, Conversation, and Revenge. The quotations are arranged chronologically within themes, andthere is an index to help search for a particular or favourite author.