The Toastmaster's Treasure Chest [Hardcover]

Herbert Victor Prochnow (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Castle Books (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785815341
• ISBN-13: 978-0785815341
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,657,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a quick quote for a talk--worth 3.5, November 25, 2004

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Neal J. Pollock (VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Toastmaster's Treasure Chest (Hardcover)

I only used this work as a reference for some quickly needed quotes on a very specific topic. It did the trick. It's not as comprehensive as Bartlett's or the Oxford Dictionary. It isn't the story collection of Braude either. Each of these works has its own uses, though they all employ quotations of one sort or another. Perhaps, my favorite in this book that I noticed was:
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusions. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. Phyllis McGinley, p. 230