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  2. List of book titles taken from literature - Wikipedia

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    Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.

  3. Wish - Wikipedia

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    Wishes written on red ribbons and tied to a tree in Beihai, Guangxi, China. Several cultures engage in customs that entail wish-granting, such as blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, praying, seeing a shooting star at night, [1] tossing a coin into a wishing well or fountain, breaking the wishbone of a cooked turkey, blowing a dandelion, or writing wishes on a ribbon or a sky lantern.

  4. Magical Wishes - Wikipedia

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    Magical Wishes is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of wishes edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the seventh volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in November 1986. The ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (D) - Wikipedia

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    Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI. For other meanings see Deus caritas est (disambiguation). deus ex machina: a god from a machine: From the Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēchanēs theós). A contrived or artificial solution, usually to a literary plot.

  6. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Title Composition date Subtitle or former titles Index of first lines Classed as (by Wordsworth) Publication date Lines written as a School Exercise 1785 Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14. Lines on the Bicentenary of Hawkshead School. "And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven" Juvenile Pieces: Unknown Extract 1786

  7. List of titles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of personal titles arranged in a sortable table. They can be sorted: Alphabetically; By language, nation, or tradition of origin; By function. See Separation of duties for a description of the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative functions as they are generally understood today.

  8. Wikiquote - Wikipedia

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    Wikiquote has been suggested as "a great starting point for a quotation search" with only quotes with sourced citations being available. It is also noted as a source from frequent misquotes and their possible origins. [12] [13] It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".

  9. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", also known as "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in later publications, is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds .