The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair Philosophers…And Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart
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ISBN: 1440505896 / Publisher: Adams Media, July 2010
Provides quotes from well known and unknown people on topics including architecture, literature, science, and religion.
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<b>Have you ever wanted to be an intellectual, without all that tedious work of getting an advanced college degree? Here’s your shortcut to the world of the well read.</b> Just open this collection of 1,417 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure, and <i>voila!</i>--instant erudition. <br><br>It doesn’t take much to sound as if you know what you’re talking about. Just toss off some time-tested wisdom from Henry James or Plotinus . . . or, if you’re feeling daring, a line or two of poetry from Byron. In no time at all you’ll be sipping a glass of Madeira, sampling imported Gouda, and bragging about your collection of first edition Vonneguts.<br>Just like an intellectual.
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