Quotation Quiz (Lit)

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Who said:-

1. 'The report of my death was an exaggeration' Mark Twain

2. 'The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.'Mark Twain, I think

3. 'Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?' George Orwell
4. 'An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down' George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
5. 'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' Nietzsche 'Maxims and Missiles' (see also Conan the barbarian)

6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's fan)

7. AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Ambrose Bierce (The Cynic's Word Book)

8. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.Raymond Chandler

9. I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. Gore Vidal
 
 
 
 
 
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