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- From: olsen@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Diane Olsen)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Looking up quotations, etc., online
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.222811.29599@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:28:11 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University CSLI
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- Q. How can I come up with quotations such as this one as quickly as
- everybody else?
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- CO1 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest
- of these is charity.
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- A. Let me pass on this tip so I can be promoted from "last person to hear
- about this" to "second to last...":
-
- Type
- telnet info.rutgers.edu
- Library
- Reference
-
- and you will be greeted with a menu listing various reference books that you
- can consult online, including a dictionary, a thesaurus, the Oxford Book of
- Familiar Quotations, the King James Bible, the Koran, and the Book of Mormon.
-
- Happy hunting!
-
- --Diane (named for Diana, ancient Roman goddess of the hunt)
-
- --
- Diane L. Olsen "A woman with a mind is fit for all tasks."
- olsen@csli.stanford.edu --Christine de Pizan (c.1363-c.1431)
-