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Name these individuals who each had more than 50 quotations in the 1989 version of the 'Bloomsbury Dictionary of Quotations'. To help you out their lifespan is listed as well.
All are Men
All are from either England or Ireland
Source: I have the book
Quiz by Scaro88
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Last updated: October 16, 2022
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# Of Quotations and life span
Example Quotation
Answer
305 (1564-1616)
For mine own part, it was Greek to me
William Shakespeare
161 (1709-1784)
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people
Samuel Johnson
78 (1809-1892)
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Alfred Tennyson
76 (1854-1900)
In married life three is a company and two is none
Oscar Wilde
72 (1770-1850)
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills
William Wordsworth
68 (1561-1626)
Knowledge itself is power (Translated from Latin)
Francis Bacon
67 (1795-1821)
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
John Keats
63 (1874-1965)
Wars are not won by evacuations
Winston Churchill
60 (1688-1744)
To err is human, to forgive, divine
Alexander Pope
60 (1608-1674)
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
John Milton
56 (1812-1889)
Never the time and the place, And the loved one all together
Robert Browning
54 (1812-1870)
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery
Charles Dickens
51 (1856-1950)
Far too good to waste on children (On youth)
George Bernard Shaw
51 (1903-1956)
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales
Evelyn Waugh
50 (1757-1827)
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Scaro88
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Level 78
Oct 16, 2022
I wonder if this book were published today by the same people (Largely focussed on British authors, statesmen etc) who else would make the list. Perhaps Terry Pratchett because they seem to like small witty sentences from books and he has a lot of them?

NEAR MISSES:

William Gilbert: 49 (G and Sullivan)

G.K Chesterton: 47

Horace: 47

Matthew Arnold: 45

Samuel Taylor-Coleridge: 45

DH Lawrence: 43

Lord Byron: 41

HIGHEST WOMEN:

Jane Austen: 29

Dorothy Parker: 29

George Eliot: 25

RANDOM:

George Orwell: 34

Lewis Caroll: 34

Voltaire: 34

Rudyard Kipling: 33

Bertrand Russell: 30

Groucho Marx: 26

Geoffrey Chaucer: 19

Abraham Lincoln: 17

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