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"""Open it to any page and you will find gems.""--Shelf Awareness ""This collection of proverbs is a banquet for thought. Not only are the sayings themselves intriguing, but it's fun to ponder the cultural differences that underlie them.""--Barbara Wallraff, Detroit Free Press"

Open it to any page and you will find gems. --Shelf Awareness<br> This collection of proverbs is a banquet for thought. Not only are the sayings themselves intriguing, but it's fun to ponder the cultural differences that underlie them. --Barbara Wallraff, Detroit Free Press<br>

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Author of more than one hundred books, including most recently Words, Words, Words and The Fight for English, David Crystal received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995. Also a Fellow of the British Academy, a board member of the English Speaking Union, and former president of the Johnson Society, he is a frequent commentator on radio and TV on all matters linguistic.

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