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Quiz: Who wrote that first?

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In the new book “Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers” (Bloomsbury, 240 pages, $18) Paul Dickson provides a glossary of familiar terms -- more than 1,700 -- all coined by literary figures. Do you know your bookish etymology? Take our quiz.

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