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Who Said That?

 

Test your knowledge of the people below by determining who made which statement.

1)   “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

2)    “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few…”

3)    “The pen is mightier than the sword.” 

4)    "To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches…”

5)    “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

6)    “We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

7)    “Never make a defense or an apology before you are accused.”

8)    “Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice is in the intent.”

9)    “Work, darling, is the rent you pay for life.”

10)  ”My Lords, do whatever you wish. As for me, I shall do no otherwise than pleases me.”

 

A.     Oscar Wilde

B.     Anne Bradstreet

C.    Margaret Thatcher

D.    Francis Bacon

E.     Winston Churchill

F.     Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

G.    Aldous Huxley

H.     Queen Mother to Elizabeth II

I.         Elizabeth I

J.      Charles I

 

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