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Our American heritage, edited by Charles L. Wallis.
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New York, Harper & Row [1970]
1970
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Treasury of great American sayings / compiled by Leonard and Thelma Spinrad.
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West Nyack, N.Y. : Parker Pub. Co., [1975]
1975
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My country, 'tis of thee; a Bi-centennial keepsake.
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[Santa Ana, Calif., Log-Anne Press 1976?]
1976
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Voices of America : the Nation's story in slogans, sayings, and songs / Thomas A. Bailey, with the assistance of Stephen M. Dobbs.
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New York : Free Press, c1976.
1976
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1800 quotable quotes, quips, and squibs, by E. C. McKenzie.
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Grand Rapids, Mich., Baker Book House [1972]
1972
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The Complete book of Bible quotations / edited by Mark L. Levine and Eugene Rachlis.
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New York : Pocket Books, c1986.
1986
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| FormatText | Call number*PDL 88-1967 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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Unnatural quotations : a compendium of quotations by, for, or about gay people / Leigh W. Rutledge.
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Boston : Alyson Publications, 1988.
1988
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You know these lines! : a bibliography of the most quoted verses in American poetry / by Merle Johnson ; foreword by H.L. Mencken.
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New York : G.A. Baker, 1935.
1935
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| FormatText | Call number*KAY (Johnson, M. De V. You know these lines) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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The gist of Mencken : quotations from America's critic / gleaned from newspapers, magazines, books, letters, and manuscripts by Mayo DuBasky.
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Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1990.
1990
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 90-8427 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Harper book of American quotations / Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich.
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New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
1988
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| FormatText | Call number*R-RMRR PN6084.A5 .C37 1988 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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American sayings; famous phrases, slogans, and aphorisms, by Henry F. Woods.
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New York, Essential books, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1945]
1945
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 89-1673 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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In essence : epigrams and quotable quotes in race relations from the writings of Dan W. Dodson / by Sample N. Pittman.
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New York : Vantage Press, c1968.
1968
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 323.173-D (Dodson, D. In essence) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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The New York Public Library book of twentieth-century American quotations / edited by Stephen Donadio ... [et al.].
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New York, NY : Warner Books, c1992.
1992
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| FormatText | Call numberPub. Cat. PN6081 .N53 1992 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Public Catalog Room 315 |
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Drat! mythed again : second thoughts on Utah / Steve Warren.
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West Valley City, Utah : Altair Pub. Co., c1986.
1986
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| FormatText | Call numberIXC 93-856 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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Ms. Bartlett's familiar quatations / Jane Bartlett.
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San Diego : J. Tabler, c1991.
1991
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 92-17026 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Timeless treasures / selected by Vernon McLellan.
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San Bernardino, CA : Here's Life Publishers, 1992.
1992
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| FormatText | Call numberJFC 93-268 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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One hundred choice quotations by prominent men and women of the Negro race; a valuable little gift book.
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[Washington, D. C. Printed by Murray Bros., c1917]
1917
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 808.8-D (Davis, M. One hundred choice quotations) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Lincoln; his words and his world [compiled] by the editors of Country beautiful magazine. Editorial direction: Michael P. Dineen. Edited by Robert L. Polley.
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Waukesha, Wis., Published by Country Beautiful Foundation for Hawthorn Books, New York [1965]
1965
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| FormatText | Call numberSc B-Lincoln, A. (Lincoln, A. Lincoln; his words and his world) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Words of power : voices from Indian America / edited by Norbert S. Hill, Jr.
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Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c1994.
1994
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| FormatText | Call numberHBC 95-3542 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin : a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes / James C. Humes ; with a foreword by David Eisenhower.
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New York : HarperCollins, c1995.
1995
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| FormatText | Call numberJFB 95-93 | Item locationOffsite |
On the night the hogs ate Willie : and other quotations on all things Southern / edited by Barbara Binswanger and Jim Charlton.
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1994.
1994
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| FormatText | Call numberJFC 95-286 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Bible according to Mark Twain : writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood / edited by Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough.
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Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1995.
1995
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 95-8581 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Voices of Seattle : speaking out from the "Emerald City" / edited by Antoinette May & Vernon Appleby.
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New York : HarperCollinsWest, c1995.
1995
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| FormatText | Call numberIXO (Seattle) 95-7747 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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In wildness is the preservation of the world, from Henry David Thoreau / Selections & photographs by Eliot Porter ; introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.
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San Francisco, Sierra Club [1962]
1962
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| FormatText | Call numberMFX+ (Porter) 95-8431 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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Wood-notes wild : walking with Thoreau / selected by Mary Kullberg ; drawings by Christine Stetter.
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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1995.
1995
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| FormatText | Call numberJFF 96-1232 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The wit & wisdom of Abraham Lincoln : a treasury of more than 650 quotations and anecdotes / James C. Humes ; with a foreword by Lamar Alexander.
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New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFB 96-131 | Item locationOffsite |
Hitch your wagon to a star and other quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson / Keith Weller Frome ; with preface by Leslie Fiedler.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 96-19947 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Simplify, simplify and other quotations from Henry David Thoreau / K.P. Van Anglen.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 96-21563 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Maxims of Washington, political, social, moral, and religious. Collected and arranged by John Frederick Schroeder...
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Mount Vernon, Va., The Mount Vernon ladies' association [c1942]
1942
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| FormatText | Call numberIAW (Washington, G. Maxims of Washington) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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Watchwords of liberty : a pageant of American quotations / with text and illustrations by Robert Lawson.
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Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1943.
1943
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| FormatText | Call numberIAG (Lawson, R. Watchwords of liberty. 1943) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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Watchwords of liberty; a pageant of American quotations. With text and illus. by Robert Lawson.
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Boston, Little, Brown [1957]
1957
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| FormatText | Call numberIAG (Lawson, R. Watchwords of liberty. 1957) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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Quotations from the would-be chairman: Richard Milhous Nixon / Edited by M. B. Schnapper.
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Washington, Public Affairs Press [1968]
1968
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| FormatText | Call numberB-10 3443 | Item locationOffsite |
AMERIFIL.TXT : a commonplace book / [compiled by] Douglas Crase.
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 97-3131 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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A dictionary of proverbs and proverbial phrases from books published by Indiana authors before 1890.
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Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1961.
1961
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| FormatText | Call numberD-13 1862 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The wit and wisdom of Billy Graham. Edited and compiled by Bill Adler.
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New York, Random House [1967]
1967
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| FormatText | Call numberD-18 194 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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"Deng Xiaoping is a chain-smoking communist dwarf" : the sayings of Pat Buchanan / edited by S. Thomas Colfax.
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New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFC 97-625 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Memorable quotations of John F. Kennedy. Compiled by Maxwell Meyersohn.
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New York, Crowell [1965]
1965
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| FormatText | Call numberE-12 4870 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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A year of beautiful thoughts / compiled by Jeanie A. B. Greenough.
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New York : T.Y. Crowell, 1902.
1902
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| FormatText | Call numberNACG YBT (Greenough, J. A. B. Year of beautiful thoughts) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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A dictionary of American proverbs and proverbial phrases, 1820-1880, by Archer Taylor and Bartlett Jere Whiting.
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Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.
1958
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 97-6748 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Memory gems for school and home, arranged by W.H. Williams.
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New York, A.S. Barnes & Company, 1907.
1907
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| FormatText | Call numberNAY (Williams, W. H. Memory gems for school and home) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Poetical quotations, comprises excellent and appropriate sentiments and choice selections collected from the national, local and anonymous verse-writers of America now living. Alphabetically arranged. Ed. and comp. under the supervision of Thos. W. Herringshaw.
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Chicago, American Publishers' Association, 1892.
1892
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| FormatText | Call numberNAY (Herringshaw, T. W. Poetical quotations) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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You know these lines! A bibliography of the most quoted verses in American poetry. Foreword by H. L. Mencken.
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New York, G. A. Baker & Company, 1935.
1935
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| FormatText | Call numberNAY (Johnson, M. De V. You know these lines) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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A Carnegie anthology, arranged by Margaret Barclay Wilson.
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New York, Priv. print., 1915.
1915
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| FormatText | Call numberNBY (Carnegie, A. Carnegie anthology) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatText | Call number*KF 1915 (Carnegie, A. Carnegie anthology) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Character and comment, selected from the novels of W. D. Howells, by Minnie Macoun.
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Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1889.
1889
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| FormatText | Call numberNBY (Howells, W. D. Character and comment) | Item locationOffsite |
All is well; edited by Jeanne Gillespie Pennington ...
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New York, Dodge Publ. Co. [c1909]
1909
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| FormatText | Call numberNAY (Pennington, J. G. All is well) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Whittier birthday book.
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New York, Dodge Pub. Co. [1910]
1910
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| FormatText | Call numberNBI (Whittier, J. G. Whittier birthday book) | Item locationOffsite |
The Mark Twain calendar.
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[New York, G. Sully and Co., 1919]
1919
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| FormatText | Call number9-NBY (Clemens, S. L. Mark Twain calendar) | Item locationOffsite |
Oh say can you see : unexpected anecdotes about American history / John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb.
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New York : W. Morrow, c1987.
1987
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| FormatText | Call numberIAG 89-841 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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The American treasury, 1455-1955, selected, arranged, and edited by Clifton Fadiman, assisted by Charles Van Doren.
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New York, Harper [1955]
1955
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 98-3333 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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A treasury of great American quotations; our country's life & history in the thoughts of its men and women.
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New York, Hawthorn Books [1964]
1964
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 99-4185 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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