# Of Quotations and life span | Example Quotation | Answer | % Correct |
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305 (1564-1616) | For mine own part, it was Greek to me | William Shakespeare | 96%
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63 (1874-1965) | Wars are not won by evacuations | Winston Churchill | 60%
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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 | 44%
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76 (1854-1900) | In married life three is a company and two is none | Oscar Wilde | 28%
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72 (1770-1850) | I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills | William Wordsworth | 28%
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67 (1795-1821) | 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know | John Keats | 24%
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60 (1688-1744) | To err is human, to forgive, divine | Alexander Pope | 16%
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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 | 16%
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78 (1809-1892) | 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all | Alfred Tennyson | 12%
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51 (1856-1950) | Far too good to waste on children (On youth) | George Bernard Shaw | 12%
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60 (1608-1674) | Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven | John Milton | 12%
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161 (1709-1784) | Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people | Samuel Johnson | 12%
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68 (1561-1626) | Knowledge itself is power (Translated from Latin) | Francis Bacon | 4%
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56 (1812-1889) | Never the time and the place, And the loved one all together | Robert Browning | 4%
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51 (1903-1956) | We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales | Evelyn Waugh | 0%
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