📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 24/07 - 30/07
🗒 14 questions · ⏱ ≈ 2 minutes

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“Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.
“Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.”
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.
“As I thought,” he said. “No better from THIS side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that’s what it is.”
There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came Pooh.
“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.
“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it IS a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.
“Why, what’s the matter?”
“Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.”
“Can’t all WHAT?” said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
“Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush. ...I’m not complaining, but There It Is.”
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.

Translation
#aamilne

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes.

Translation
#frankmccourt

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
- C.S. Lewis.

Translation
#cslewis

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.”
- William Ernest Henley, Invictus.

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Translation
#williamernesthenley

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Translation
#arthurconandoyle

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#georgerrmartin

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
- Jack London.

Translation
#jacklondon

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“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

Translation
#jmbarrie

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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Translation
#jkrowling

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“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
- Bram Stoker, Dracula.

Translation
#bramstoker

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“Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”
- Hilaire Belloc

Translation
#hilairebelloc

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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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#ernesthemingway

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