8,789 Words of Wisdom: Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2015) Publication Date: 10 Jan 2003

Publication Date: 10 Jan 2003

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8,789 Words of Wisdom: Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2015) Publication Date: 10 Jan 2003An essential, obsessive collection of all those wise and quirky sayings weve heard beforeplus plenty of essential, obscure ones to discovernow all in one place. With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms8,789 of them, to be precisethat prove just as true today as the day they were coined. Polished over years of use, theres the unexpected, the playful, even the