The dictionary of foreign quotations

"What did Mussolini actually say about making the trains run on time? Did Marie Antoinette really advise the poor to eat cake? Here are the answers, not only to such famous questions but for anyone who comes across a foreign language quotation in a book or a newspaper and can't quite make out what i...

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Other Authors: Lejeune, Anthony
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Latin
French
Italian
German
Spanish
Published: London : Stacey International, 2008.
Edition:Rev. ed.
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650 0 |a Quotations  |v Translations into English. 
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