Literary Quotes Trivia Questions
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Which author included the line 'One cannot have too large a party' in her novel 'Emma'?
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jane austen
What concept did the 19th century novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford declare to be 'in the eye of the beholder'?
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beauty
What should you do when someone calls you 'that' in chapter 2 of Owen Wister's 'The Virginian'?
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smile
According to Thomas Carlyle, a poet without which emotion is both a physical and metaphysical impossibility?
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love
Which author created the character Mr. Bumble who proclaimed, 'The law is a ass, a idiot'?
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charles dickens
In his 1597 work 'Religious Meditations,' Francis Bacon wrote that what 'is power'?
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knowledge
Who is the poet who wrote, 'Celery raw, develops the jaw, but celery stewed, is more quietly chewed'?
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ogden nash
In the work of W.S. Gilbert, what does skim milk masquerade as?
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cream
According to Poor Richard's Almanack, a fine genius in his own country is likened to what precious metal in the mine?
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gold
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