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Title | : | Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.45 (784 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0314195483 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 840 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-07-25 |
Language | : | English |
The wisdom that advises us to look before we leap also warns us that if we hesitate all is lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Adages are the wit of the inarticulate. More important: Proverbs are what a people any people believe, cherish, and teach their young. All of us, not just trial lawyers, recite famous quotes and proverbs to better express ourselves. Musmanno. The author has tried to do more than that. Since ancient Egypt every civilization has collected proverbs. In North America, Poor Richard's, (1732-57) by Benjamin Franklin is probably the most celebrated collection of proverbs. So what can we learn from that? Simply that life is full of contradictions, and that proverbs and maxims, etc., reflect and express these disagreements, and that many apothegms are more witty than true. The author's fascination with collecting quotations began in high school and continued through college and law school; and over the past 30 years his high school index box has become a foot locker filled with quotes that he has found useful for writing or speaking on legal and other topics. You can easily find one maxim that cancels another. In the English language, The Proverbs of Alfred,
"I really wanted to like this book; at $100 I REALLY wanted to like this book." according to Thasha Brown. As a practicing attorney and columnist, I'm often in need of quotes about the law. However, this book falls short of the mark by 1) failing to provide comprehensive attribution of many of its quotations, and 2) lacking in variety and complexity of law-specific quotations.To begin, while this book is replete with wonderfully pithy quotes, very few of them are accompanied by comprehensive citations. Let me be clear: quotes from case law are usually provided with citations, however, literary quotes found in . Product was as advertised Robert L. Tucker This is a very helpful resource for writers and speakers. The price was excellent and the book was in first class condition.
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