Favourite Quotation Revealed!

PR Newswire Europe, December, 2004

OXFORD, England, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Words of wisdom for the world's despair?

Are the public more concerned about current affairs worldwide than their own personal issues? A fifth of all pollsters voted for Edmund Burke's 'It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph' as their favourite quotation.

Running second in the voting was 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' by William Butler Yeats.

To mark the launch of a major new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press posted a list of one hundred of the most resonant quotations in the book on its website, www.askoxford.com. Visitors to the site whittled the list down to a 'Top Ten' and then the public was invited...

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