15 Quotes by Richard Lederer

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    When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.

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    The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

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    Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, ‘I quote others only to better express myself.’ Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

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    In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens – the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

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    Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands.

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    English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

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