The Oxford Dictionary Of Modern Quotations...
This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations.
What is a "quotation"? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes
people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in
speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with
a phrase like "As ---- says" but equally often they will assume that the
reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply
allude to it without mentioning its source (as in the headline "A ros‚ is
a ros‚ is a ros‚," referring obliquely to a line by Gertrude Stein).......
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