A Dictionary of Burning Words

Six hundred pages of the sharpest lines from 'the literature of all ages,' filed by subject — built for orators, preachers and anyone who needs the perfect quotation.

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14 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Ability

3 quotations

Accountability

2 quotations

Action

29 quotations

Adoption

3 quotations

Adversity

5 quotations

Affliction

28 quotations

Ambition

4 quotations

Amusement

5 quotations

Anger

8 quotations

Apostasy

3 quotations

Aspiration

5 quotations

Assurance

11 quotations

Atheism

12 quotations

Avarice

4 quotations

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