| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 78%
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| “Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop— Was the site once of a city great and gay, (So they say) Of our country's very capital, its prince Ages since Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far Peace or war.” | “Love Among the Ruins” | Robert Browning | 52%
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| The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. We used to pass—we used to pass Or halt, as it might be, And ship our masks in case of gas Beyond Gethsemane. | “Gethsemane” | Rudyard Kipling | 52%
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| "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 41%
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| “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | 37%
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| "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." | Ulysses | James Joyce | 33%
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| “We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.” | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 19%
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| “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 19%
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| “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 15%
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| “We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.” | The Children of Men | P. D. James | 7%
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