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The book began with quotations originally in English, arranged them chronologically by author; Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry and Mary Frances Butts the last. The quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section followed, including quotations in English from politicians and scientists, such as "fifty-four forty or fight!".
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 28 critic reviews with 12 being "rave" and 12 being "positive" and 4 being "mixed". [6] As Molly Young writes for The New York Times, the book is "a philosophical monograph on the nature of writing" and also "a practical manual." [7]
The Yale Book of Quotations is a quotations collection focusing on modern and American quotations. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro , it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein , ISBN 978-0-300-10798-2 .
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.
The three Rs [1] are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic", Reading, wRiting, and ARithmetic [2] or Reckoning. The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century.
A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.
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Quotations from Chairman Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù, commonly known as the "红宝书" pinyin: hóng bǎo shū during the Cultural Revolution [1]), colloquially referred to in the English-speaking world as the Little Red Book, [2] is a compilation book of ...