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The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair PhilosophersAnd Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart
Peter Archer
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Paperback. A collection of 1,200 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. 1, 200 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair Philosophers.and Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart. 256 pages, illustrations. A collection of 1,200 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ. Dimension: 216 x 153 x 18. Weight: 288.
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. Just open this collection of 1,417 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure, and voila!--instant erudition.
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 ... Read more
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. Just open this collection of 1,417 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure, and voila!--instant erudition.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Adams Media
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Holbrook, MA, United States
ISBN
9781440505898
SKU
V9781440505898
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About Peter Archer
Peter Archer is an editor at Adams Media. He subscribes to the New Yorker, the Economist, and the New York Review of Books; keeps a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy on his nightstand; and has an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews. Which makes him as much of a pseudointellectual as he needs to be to write this book. ... Read more
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