Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> level debunking the second-level debunkers.  The Yale Book of Quotations
> and Ralph Keyes's books and the efforts of some of the people on ADS-L are
> the only sources that make it to the third level to any appreciable
> extent. Sometimes Nigel Rees's publications make it there.

Upon reflection, I was too restrained in my praise of Nigel Rees's
publications.  There are many outstanding discoveries in Rees's work, and
I got as much good information from his work as from Keyes' work,
probably even more.

Fred Shapiro


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   Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press
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