This book of quotations is a collection of aphorisms and phrases by statesmen, political and public leaders, writers, musicians, artists, and educators of by-gone and present times. In addition to Russian and Soviet sources, it covers the eastern lands, the Transcaucasus, and other territories now part of the Soviet Union. Also covered are antique thinkers who belong equally to the Soviet Central Asian republics and the countries of the Middle East. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Words of the Wise: A Book of Russian Quotations (V. V. Vorontsov)