Which of these quotes are a quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

10 07 2007

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  • Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
  • Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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  • There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.
    J. K. Rowling
  • Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.
    Albert Einstein

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2.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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  • The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
  • One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
  • Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
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3.Who said:When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

  • Maria Montessori
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Edward De Bono
  • Bertrand Russell
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4. Which of these quotes are a quote by G. K. Chesterton

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  • The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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  • The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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5. Which of these quotes are a quote by Joseph Addison

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  • There are more fools in the world than there are people.
    Heinrich Heine
  • I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
    Kahlil Gibran
  • Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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6. Which of these quotes are a quote by Walter Bagehot

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  • I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
    Tom Robbins
  • The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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  • Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
    George Eliot

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7.Who said:There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Jeanne Moreau
  • Titus Maccius Plautus
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8. Which of these quotes are a quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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  • There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
    James Thurber
  • Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
    Hoshang N. Akhtar
  • Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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