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Loading... The Yale Book of Quotations (edition 2006)by Fred ShapiroDiscovered thanks to Corey Robin in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Really-Said-That-/141559/ From the Foreword by Joseph Epstein: It has been said that you are what you eat; among writers and scholars, you are, I believe, whom you quote. I first became aware of this project a few years ago, when Fred Shapiro started asking questions about quotations on Stumpers-L (now Project Wombat). When the book finally appeared last year, I was pleased to see that he not only acknowledged the help given the by the list and the individuals who'd provided leads and information, he'd also added many annotations (see the entry for John Sedgwick). In its general form, this is similar to the other canonical books of quotations, but he's added a lot more and included many contemporary references. |
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