Mark My Words: Great Quotations and the Stories Behind Them

Mark My Words: Great Quotations and the Stories Behind Them
ISBN-10
0760735328
ISBN-13
9780760735329
Series
Mark My Words
Category
Quotations
Pages
640
Language
English
Published
2002
Author
Nigel Rees

Description

“ Mark Twain ... probably did make the oral comment first to his billiard companion , Charles Dudley Warner , " it said . " But ... Warner deserves the credit for having first put into writing this well - weathered statement .

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