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Quotations (Books & Web Sites)

A good way to begin and/or end a speech is to give an appropriate quotation that attracts your listeners' interest. Quotation books are found in Reference in the PN 6080-PN 6084 range. Some titles (there are many more!):

  • African American Quotations PN 6081.3 .A36 1998 REF
  • American Indian Quotations PN 6081.4 .A43 1996 REF
  • A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations PN 6084 .N2 D53 1998 REF
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature PN 6081 .B27 2002 REF
  • The International Thesaurus of Quotations PN 6081 .E37 1996 REF
  • The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations PN 6084 .P6 E54 1993 REF
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations PN 6084 .H8 O94 2001
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations PN 6081 .O94 2000 REF
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations PN 6080 .O94 1991 REF
  • The Quotable Woman PN 6081.5 .Q65 2001 REF
  • The Speaker's Book of Quotations PN 6081 .S72 2000 REF

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