vade mecum
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Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives.
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Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints.
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Far from bridging the communications gap between East and West, this vade mecum is sure to cause confusion if not some international incidents.
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Distributed in more than a billion copies, the so-called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic.
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It is a work without the least value, except as a convenient commonplace book or vade mecum, for tyro politicians and young divines, to smooth their progress in the Church or the State.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob