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Summary: Wise, funny, insightful - endlessly entertaining
Review: Panati has done it again! Produced a big book for browsing that is chuck full of surprises, insight and wisdom, all told with the author's dry wit and sophisitcated sense of humor. People were saying "no pain, no gain" back in the 17th century, and "the devil made me do it" many centuries earlier. Panati has ferretted out the fascinating stories behind hundreds of 'wisdom' expression and revealed how 'commonsense' got its start. This is surely one of his best books to date: both seriously informative and endlessly entertaining.
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Summary: Another winner
Review: Panati must be a wonderful conversationalist; yet again, he has created a wonderful work, amazing even the most learned and inquisitive minds with his fact-finding and sense of history, coupled together with engaging writting, allowing one access to the origins of our most common and erudite expressions.A must get!
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money.
Review: Unstructured, repetitive and monotonous, this book is simply an assemblage of quotations from different cultures on common themes (e.g., the Golden Rule) without any effort to enhance understanding. It is like a stamp collection sorted by color -- meaningless. The reader is better served by Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
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