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Bartlett's Words to Live By: Advice and Inspiration for Everyday Life
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Hardcover, 278 pages; 2006
$18.95
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
——Francis Bacon, Apothegms
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.,/i>
——Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
——Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
For over 150 years, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been a benchmark collection of wise words and witty thoughts. In Bartlett's Words to Live By, you'll find 1,300 of the 25,000 quotations in the seventeenth edition of the classic tome, each handpicked for its "advice and inspiration for everyday life." The book's relatively compact size (in the foreword, Kurt Vonnegut compares its heft to "that of a kitten or puppy") allows you to flip through some of the most articulate remarks of all time--arranged by topic--with joyful ease. Bartlett's Words to Live By makes a universally brilliant gift--after all, who wouldn't benefit from an encouraging word or two from history's greatest thinkers?
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