Encarta book of quotations

the long version

"This book contains 25,000 quotations by more than 6,200 authors drawn from the whole world from the earliest times to the present. International in scope, it is also unashamedly up to date, with approximately half the quotations being taken from the last 100 years, and two-thirds from the last 200 years.". "The Encarta Book of Quotations has been created for use by people living and working in this new, much wider world, and we hope that the range of languages and cultures from which these quotations are drawn will reflect this change. Taken together they amount to a portrait of our common humanity."--BOOK JACKET.