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1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

by Robert Byrne · 1988

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From Plato to Groucho, this comprehensive edition features some of the most quotable people who ever lived. They are the famous, infamous, the little-known, and the unknown, inspired enough by life to comment on it, and smart enough to be clever about it.

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"Like eating peanuts—once you start it's hard to stop."

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"You'll love this book and read its lines aloud to helpless friends."

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Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
writerswritersMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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