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This is an elite collections of important and intelligent quotations in English

through the centuries. It can be confi dently described as representing the highest

concentration of wisdom, wit & sensibility ever written or spoken in the

English language or tradition, ranging from the Venerable Bede and Chaucer to

Mark Twain, Einstein and Feynman.

It abounds in sparkling and memorable thoughts and expressions from Great Britain,

the United States, and the Commonwealth as well as from various other Englishspeaking

countries and peoples.

The quotations have been thoughtfully selected for their instructive and entertainment

value and as vehicles toward an all-round higher education and culture in both the

sciences and the humanities. Quotations from a number of fi elds, encompassing

history, politics, literature, economics and the physical and life sciences are included.

This book will allow the reader to consort with, and listen to the ‘voices’ of, some of

the most intelligent, amusing, well-spoken and even out-spoken people of the past

and the present.

James Boswell, the great Scots biographer of The Life of Samuel Johnson, is said to have

longed for the London coach that would take him to “the juiciness of the English

mind”. This publication will certainly take you to a much wider and longer domain

of intellectual and verbal excellence and juiciness.

It provides an adventure of ideas in the tradition of the British and, more generally,

the European Enlightenment, celebrating the western values of freedom, reason,

humaneness, tolerance and progress. It is addressed to all lovers of original thinking,

fascinating knowledge, ingenious conversation, and elegant language and style.

It constitutes a delightful way to enrich your general knowledge and to enhance your

intellectual, linguistic and conversational prowess.

It can also serve as an ideal aid and guide, for students of various disciplines and ages,

toward speaking more interestingly and even impressively and toward writing fi ner

and more well-argued essays.

A concise edition of this book is also available under the title Great Quotations in

English.