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[HE TREASURY OF HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS (Phoenix House, English price 12/6), is an English edition, by Nicolas Bentley, of the original anthology by Evan Esar. Mr. Bentley’s task has been to subtract about 500 American quotations and replace them with alternatives (mostly from English sources), but the quantity of unfamiliar wit and epigram remaining is still sufficient to make this indeed a treasury for politicians, after-dinner speakers, and book-reviewers. Authors appear alphabetically (from Franklin P. Adams to Zola), and there is an exhaustive index of subject-matter.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 14
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86ACKNOWLEDGMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 14
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