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James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, and Geary's Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists, among other books. He likes to juggle.
“Probably the definitive work on aphorisms. . . . [F]ellow fanatics will be delighted.” -- Publishers Weekly, on the first edition “A delight. . . . [The World in a Phrase] offers extraordinary phrases that any lover of the prickly thought and the graceful sentence can savor.” -- The New York Sun, on the first edition “[An] entertaining love letter to the compact form.” -- The New York Times, on the first edition “It is impossible not to be swept along with Geary’s enthusiasm.” -- The Times Literary Supplement, on the first edition “Geary serves up old favorit[e] [aphorists]. . . . But he has also rustled up phrase-makers who are undeservedly forgotten.” -- The Washington Post, on the first edition
