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Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable

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Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable

William Davenport Adams

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Quips, quirks and quiddities: the alliteration is a warning label. W. Davenport Adams distilled a quintessence of the quaint, quizzical and quotable from centuries of comic verse and prose, issued by Chatto and Windus in 1881 for readers who like their wisdom winking. Fifty thousand words of literary mischief. Bring it to the next dull party.

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8 chapters

  1. 1QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
  2. 2QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
  3. 3A QUINTESSENCE OF QUIRKS QUAINT, QUIZZICAL, AND QUOTABLE
  4. 4W. DAVENPORT ADAMS
  5. 5London CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1881
  6. 6PREFACE.
  7. 7QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES.
  8. 8Transcriber's Notes:
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