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The oxford dictionary of quotations book by oxford. The oxford dictionary of american legal quotations is the most scholarly and most complete legal quotation reference ever published. Apr 05, 2021 it ensures coverage of the most popular and widelyused quotations by combining use of the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the oxford english corpus, with the acclaimed text of the oxford dictionary of quotations, and enhances these with a selection of less wellknown but equally memorable contemporary sayings. Augarde gathers together 6,000 of the best known quotes from our time, drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films, radio and television, songs. Paperback published in 1979, hardcover published in 1979, 0198600585 hardcover published in 1996. Augarde gathers together 6,000 of the best known quotes from our time.
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